Excellent Service To Community

Press, Volume C, Issue 29488, 14 April 1961, Page 16

Excellent Service To Community

The family of Mr C. T. Williams, one of the directors of the newly-formed Kaiapoi Shipping Company and managing director of C. Morgan Williams and Son, Ltd., the Kaiapoi agents for the Toa, has had a long association with Kaiapoi and taken a prominent part in community activities. Mr Williams’s father, Mr C. Morgan Williams, was born in Wales and migrated to New Zealand in 1902 and,

after working as a farm labourer and later in the field of grain and produce, took up farming in the Kaiapoi district where he also established a grain and produce firm, now operating as C. Morgan Williams and Son, Ltd., before World War I. Mr Morgan Williams rep-

resented the former Kaiapoi electorate in Parliament from 1935 until 1946. when the electorate was absorbed into St. Albans and Hurunui. In the following year he became Mayor of Kaiapoi, a position he held until 1950. Mr Morgan Williams served as a councillor, too, and was a member of the former Waimakariri River Trust and its successor, the North Canterbury Catchment Board. He served also on the New Zealand Dairy Producers’ Marketing Commission. For a long period he took a vital interest in afforestation and he is still the borough council’s honorary forester. Long Interest Navigation of cargo vessels on the Waimakariri has for long been an interest of Mr C. T. Williams, who was a member of the former Waimakariri Harbour Board. Mr Williams later emulated his father by serving first as a councillor and then as Mayor of Kaiapoi. For the last four years and a half, Mr Williams has been a member of the Potato Board, whose main function is to maintain a guaranteed minimum price for potato growers operating with the board. He was one of those who played a prominent part in the reopening of the port of Kaiapoi. Land farmed by Mr Morgan Williams is still in the family with another son, Mr A. E. Williams, farming one area, while a son-in-law, Mr T. E. Rowlands, is fanning one of the holdings in the Ohoka district. Mr Rowlands has taken part in public life also, and is at present a member of the Eyre County Council.