UNIVERSITY BINDER

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29973, 7 November 1962, Page 20

UNIVERSITY BINDER

Mr Thrower’s

Long Record

The Canterbury University Library takes particular pride in the fine bindings on a huge number of its books, all done in Christchurch. The man responsible last week received a letter of tribute endorsed by almost every academic leader in the university. Mr Herbert Thrower is at present a patient in the Princess Margaret Hospital and the university library committee took the unusual course of sending him a letter expressing the sympathy, good wishes, and appreciation of the wh< le university staff.

Mr Thrower has been in charge, in the firm of F. Cartwright and Son, Ltd., of all university book binding for 38 years, but his association with the university’s work goes back much farther than that He first “touched” university work in 1895 when he was a young man in the printing works of Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs. Ltd. The university so values Mr Thrower’s work that it received special mention in the last library report to the University Grants Committee of New Zealand. "In the firm of F. Cartwright and Son, Ltd, our main outside binders, the craftsman who has been chiefly responsible for our work for about 38 years, Mr Thrower, has had to retire through illhealth at the age of 80," the report said. "His skill will be in evidence on our shelves for a very long time to come."

However rich or elevated we may be, a nameless something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.— Horace.