MR. G. F. JOHNSTON

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 109, 1 February 1941, Page 13

MR. G. F. JOHNSTON

Large Attendance At Funeral The funeral of Mr. Guy F. Johnston took place at Karori Cemetery yesterday. There was a large attendance, including representatives of business and other interests with which Mr. Johnston was associated, as well as many close personal friends and relatives. Services at Mr. Johnston’s former home in Hobson Street and at the cemetery were conducted by the Bishop of Wellington, the Rt. Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland. The chief. mourners were Mrs. Johnston (the widow), the Hon. Mr. Justice Johnston (brother), Mr. lan Johnston (brother), Mrs. Arthur Duncan '(sister), and Mr. Arthur Duncan (brother-in-law), Mr. Goring Johnston (Hawke’s Bay), Mr. Russell Grace (Wanganui), Mt. Duncan Menzies, Mr. Frank Newman (Wanganui), Mrs. Hilda Turnbull and Mrs. Fred Ward (cousins), Mr. C. Levin, Mr. Peter Johnston, Mr. W. Turnbull, Mr. Charles Bremner., Mr. Goring Johnston, jun. (nephews), and Misses Leslie Ivory, Levin, and Susan Duncan (nieces). The pall-bearers were Messrs. C. Levin, Peter Johnston, W. Turnbull, Charles Bremner, Goring Johnston, jun., and E. B. Lattey. Among those present were the following :— Representing the National Party and the National Club: The Hon. Adam Hamilton, Mr. C. H. Weston, K.C., Dr. O. C. Mazengarb, Mrs. K. Parkinson, Messrs. H. F. Toogood, E. Grant Taylor, H. I. Graves, G. Y. Berry. Representing Johnston and Co. Ltd.: Messrs. G. T. Mason, A. J. Fernie, K. Mason, A. S. Trengrove, W. A. Fraser (Palmerston North), R. F. Priddle (Blenheim), 8. L. Lawrence, C. N. Howard, C. E. Harrisson, Mrs. Stevenson, Misses J. Milne, P. Walton, M. Schrader. Representing the Wellington Publishing Co. Ltd.: Mr. C. W. Earle, C.M.G., Sir Donald McGavin, Messrs. A. Macintosh, J. Coombe, P. R. Scoble, G. S. McNair. Representing the Bank of Australasia: Messrs. E. A. Cameron, O. K. Tennent. Representing insurance offices: Messrs. R. Caughley, president, and L. C. Gibbons, general secretary, of the Council of Fire and Accident Underwriters’ Associations of New Zealand; L. A. Hutton, chairman, and F. E. Asboe, secretary, of the Wellington Fire and Accident Underwriters’ Association; P. J. Townley, president of the Council of Marine Underwriters. Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, K.C.8., the mayor of Wellington, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, the acting consul for the Netherlands, Mr. F. Vigeveno, Professor von Zedlitz, the Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C. (president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association), Mr. R. Boulter (British Trade Commissioner), Dr. Sydney D. Rhind, Messrs. E. Riddiford (president of the Wellington Racing Club), 8. Dunn (president of the Wellington Licensed Victuallers’ Association), D. R. Menzies, L. O. H. Tripp, S. Harcourt, F. F. Newman. Walter Reid, M. F. Luckie, W. 11. Field, R. L. Macalister, 11. I. Thodey, C. E. Hollis, W. S. Wheeler, D. G. Johnston, F. Vietmeyer, T. Fugle, C. M. Turrell, A. Ward, Gordon Reid, Douglas Jackson, E. Gilbertson, F. Ward, Warwick Blundell, G. Pearce, J. .Marchbanks, J. C. Crawford, 11. E. Knowles, 1. Souter. I’. Rochfort, Teagle, Belharry, .Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Gillou.