MAYOR SAYS FAREWELL

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 12

MAYOR SAYS FAREWELL

"However 'busily -ny time may be employed in .the .future, I will always carry with me the memory of the many kindnesses extended to me by the City Council > start. I can say definitely and without the least qualification of any sort that from the first moment I became Mayor the staff has given me every possible help and assistance. I can say with absolute sincerity that rib man was ever better served than I'have been." In these terms the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, who has been Mayor of Christchurch since 1931 and who announced his retirement on being chosen for the portfolio of Minister of Industries and Commerce when the new Government took office, bade farewell to the City Council staff in the social hall at the Council Chambers. The last five or six years, Mr. Sullivan said, had been perhaps the most difficult in the whole history of the city. There had been much distress, with thousands of persons calling with stories of real hardship—without humbug or pretence—and the wonderful assistance which the office staff gavß these people was a big help. There had been a great deal of effort, and the work of relieving distress had doubled and trebled the work of the Mayor. He would have found the task impossible if he had not had assistance and co-operation from the staff. Everyone on the staff had shown a capacity for self-sacrifice and for devoted service, and nothing he could say would serve as an adequate expression of the gratitude he felt.