MINISTER’S FUNERAL

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 17

MINISTER’S FUNERAL

Service at Kilbirnie For Rev. J. McCaw I'receded by a service at. St. Giles's Church, Kilbirnie, the funeral of the late Rev. John McCnw, formerly minister of tile l.'pper Hutt. Presbyterian Church, was held yesterday. The Rev. E. J. Orange, minister of St. Giles s Church, presided at the service, those assisting were the Revs. N. F. F. Robertshnwe (vicar of St. Mark’s Anglican Church), J. A. Asher and J. C. Loan. The chief mourners were the widow, Mr. John Todd McCaw (son), i and the Rev. James McCaw and Mr. )V. A. .McCaw, Invercargill (brothers). Among those present were Mrs. A. R. Krebs (Taumarunui), Mr. and Mrs. ,L. Blake, Mr. W. Currie, Air. and Mrs. Ackroyd, Mr. and Airs. L. Barclay. lu his address at the service, Air. Asher said lie had known Air. AlcCaw for almost 4(1 years, their meeting having taken place at. Gore, where Air. AlcCaw had taken a keen interest in the progress of the town ami the work of the church. Not long after settling at Gore, Mr. AlcCaw bad decided to become a home missionary, and had begun that work at Tuapeka West. The greatest tribute that could be pnid ro anyone was to be able to say that "he was a good man.” Mr. AlcCaw wa.s more than that; he was “a man of God.” Ho had a most engaging personality, and there was in him an clement of quaintness which made his private and public speech very compelling and attractive. He possessed in a marked measure the saving grace of humour, and was a most hopeful man. “We do not grudge him his wellwon rest,” said Air. Asher, "and sympathise very deeply with his wife, who was a true helpmate, his only son, aud his brothers and .sisters.” The office-bearers of St. Giles’s were the pall-bearers at, the church, and members of the Wellington Presbytery were the pall-hearers at the cemetery. The Rev. J. C. Loan and the Rev. J. 11. MacKenzie officiated at the graveside, Karori.