MAN OF SYMPATHIES

Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 13

MAN OF SYMPATHIES

LATE MR.VMrE^DERINISTON

SERVICE AT ST. PAUL'S

Tliorc was a large attcndanco at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral today at the funeral service for tho late Mr. Maurice Edward Dcnniston. _ There were present representatives of tho business community, the medical and dental professions, tho Wellington Rotary Club, the Now Zealand Tennis Association, and other organisations with which' tho late Mr. Denniston was connected. The service was conducted by Canon Percival James, who was assisted by the Rt. ''Rev. Dr. T. H. Sprott, Bishop of Wellington, and the Rev. 11. E. K. Fiy, vicar of Lower Hutt, The chief mourners were Mr. John Dbnniston .(son), Misses Valerie and Esther Denniston (daughters), and Mr. J. G. Denniston (brother). .The pallbearers were Sir Alexander Roberts, Messrs. Frank Campbell, D. A. Ewen (Wellington. Rotary Club), C. G. Whyte (Lawn Tennis Association), D. Menzies and D. V. 'Donaldson .(Dental Association), , Amongst those present wero air Michael Myers (Chief Justice), Mr. Justice Blair, Sir Frederick Chapman, Licut.-Colonel J. L.' Saunders (Director of Dental Hygiene, Health Department), Colonel Hunter (former Director of Dental' Hygiene), Messrs. E. S. Inncs (representing Marsdcn School), o'. ,M. Luke, E. Salmond", H. P. -F. Blu'ndell, W. S." Bennett, K. C. Morpeth, G. F. Didsbury, H. Hardeastle, A. .Hardcastle, R, H. Webb, E. R. Dymock,,C. W. D. Bell, W. M. Paterson, C. E. W. Levin, G. H. Savage, S. Ferguson, W. Moore, D. C. Peacock, H. R. Sellers, 11. E. Tripe-, C. A. Richardson, D. 'O. Whyto, C. D. Morpeth, W. E. Fussell, A. K. Gray, C. F. Worth, J. F. B. Stevenson, A. Lorigmore, E. KelloW, C. Bell) K. T. M. Edmonds, W. Rainey, H. S. .Barron, C. E. Waldie, E. W. Hunt,. N. Bell, W. T. Strand, H. E, Leighton, E. P. Hay, F. E. Fei&t, F. C. Spratt, H. Taylor, D. Jackson, J. Prondevillcy-P. B. Cookey F. F. M. Ferguson, Vickerman, I. Wilson, J. Courtney, K. Cable, W. H. Nankcrvis, E. P; Lambert, J. W." Carr, J. H. Miles, F. V. W. West, B. D. Viall, A. Geddis, G. Thornc George, D. G. A. Cooper, E. W, Hunt, - Gray Young,. F. N. R. Meadows, H. E. Anderson, H. M. Boddington, S. R. Gawith (representing the Wairarapa Lawn Tennis Association), A. G. Henderson, H. I. Graves, J. 'A. McGill, C. G. Whyte (representing the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association), C. B. Harris- (representing Mr. G. Gore, Now Zealand Lawn Tennis management committee), H. J. Buck, P. M. Muir, E. J. Guinness, E. R. Nor-, man, T. Coltman, R. Hunt, C, Gostolow, S. M. Hobbs, C. E. Wheeler, W. Forsyth,*"' J. ' "B. ' Brinsden, Drs. -R. Campbell Begg, W. J. n. Hislop, G. W., llarty, T. Duncan M. Stout, R. 'Wojt'bn-Hogg, F., T. Bowerbank, B. F. Aldred, Professor Rankine Brown, Professor .Gr. W. von Zedlitz, Colonel G. F. C. Campbell, and- others.

CANON JAMES'S TRIBUTE.

Canon James said that thero was grief- in many hearts for the loss, of Maurice Denniston. "We have," ho said, "lost a friend whom we were always glad to meet in this warmhearted, generous man, who always seemed to bo happy, because of his large love for his fellow-men, which ■won their love in return. Ho died comparatively young, but life is not to be moasured by length of days but rather by' faithfulness to the motives and ideals which have directed andi governed life:'by 'ditty 'done, and""by'WOTlc Accomplished. It is no exaggeration to doscribe Maurice Denniston as a man remarkablo for the wide rtjngo of his human sympathies. His sympathy did not evaporate iii emotion j he was eager to translate it into action. He threw his whole heart into good causes]; he undertook his full share and more iji good* woiks. Ho never spared himbelt', but persevered to the end in tha,t lo which he'Had put "his.hand. As we follow him. in our prayers into the uiiseen iv*rld into which he has, entered,, we pray, too, that God may comfort the hearts of his nearest and.dearest."