DEATH OF MAYORESS

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24614, 10 July 1945, Page 2

DEATH OF MAYORESS

REGRET EXPRESSED BY CITY COUNCIL Tributes to the work of the Mayoress (Miss Eveleyn C. Couzins), who died last month, were paid by councillors at a meeting of the Christchurch City Council last evening. On the motioa of the Deputy-Mayor (Cr. M. E. Lyons), the council placed on record its high appreciation of Miss Couzins's work, and expressed deep sympathy with her parents (Mr and Mrs W. E. Couzins) and the Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews), Miss Couzins's uncle. Cr. Lyons said that in the four years during which Miss Couzins had been Mayoress, he had come to know something of the tact, common sense, and kindness with which she had carried I out her duties She had compounded j these qualities into a sweet womanlii ness which had endeared her to citizens. No woman could have given greater service to the city than had Miss Couzins. Regret at Miss Couzins's death was felt by all sections of the Labour movement, said Cr. G. Manning. Reference to Miss Couzins's interest in all women's organisations in Canterbury was made by Cr. Mary McLean, who said Miss Couzins had come to know personally many of their individual members. Cr. A. R Guthrey said he could assure the council, from his personal experience while serving overseas with the armed forces, that Miss Couzins's death would be regretted by all servicemen who had benefited through the parcels fund which she had founded. Other speakers were Crs J. N. Clarke j and J. E. Tait. Reference to the death of Miss Couzins was made by the president 1 (Mrs R A. Ambridge) at a recent meeti ing of the Riccarton branch of the ! Women's Division of the Farmers' Union. Members stood in silence as a mark of respect to her memory. The president of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children (the Rev. I. L. Richards) at a recent meeting referred to the loss the city had sustained in the death of the Mayoress (Miss Couzins), and a motion of sympathy with the Mayor and the other relatives of Miss Couzins was recorded. Similar reference to the death of Miss Couzins was made by Mrs M. i Bethel!, nresident of the Amuri branch • of the Women's Division of the Farm- , ers' Union, and a motion of sympathy with the Mayor (Mr Andrews) and j with Miss Couzins's parents was I passed.