PRESENTATION TO THE MAYOR

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26265, 9 November 1950, Page 3

PRESENTATION TO THE MAYOR

MANUFACTURERS’ PARTY

The Mayor (Sir Ernest Andrews) was presented with a travelling rug at a party in his honour in the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association’s rooms last evening. The president of the association (Mr T. H. Lawn) said he hoped the rug would be useful if Sir Ernest Andrews made the trip overseas it was said he intended making. A past president of the association (Mr H. B. Duckworth) paid a tribute to the energetic manner in which Sir Ernest Andrews had performed his mayoral duties, saying that he had probably put more time into the job than any other Mayor of Christchurch had done.

Sir Ernest Andrews said he had declined to stand for the mayoralty until he had retired from business. “Civic duties must take up at least 50 per cent, of a mayor’s available time,” he said.

He had always tried to be a “nonpolitical’’ mayor, said Sir Ernest Andrews. “I wa§ nominated by a ‘nonpolitical’ body, and I think a mayor’s duty should never lie towards any particular section of the community. If I have been successful. I believe it is because I have had the co-operation of the whole community.” Members sang “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.”