LATE MR. B. A. MOORE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 2, 2 July 1938, Page 11

LATE MR. B. A. MOORE

HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM

The,high esteem in which the late Mr. B. A. Moore, manager of the Wellington branch of the Bank of New Zealand, was held in the community was shown by the large gathering at the funeral, which took place yesterday afternoon. The services at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul and that at the Karori Crematorium were conducted by' Canon D.

J. Davies. The chief mourners were Miss Joeelyn Moore, Miss Nancy Aitken, Mr.

f -.Keith. Moore, Mr. James Aitken, and Arthur 'Luke, The pall-bearers werey Sir James. Grose, formerly ■-. general manager of the National Bank .■■qi New Zealand, and president of the Navy League, Mr. F. E. Ashby, Mr. A. (5. Henderson, Mr. R. H. McLean, Mr. R/Jack, and Mr. R. Darroch, secretary of the" Wellington branch of the Navy League. , Among the many present were Mr. John Dowgray, a director of the Bank of New Zealand, and a fully representative gathering of the staff of the bank, including Messrs. F. W. Dawson (general manager), H. Chalmers (assistant general manager), J. Shaw (chief inspector), A. L. Hempton (chief auditor), J. C. Morrison, K. G. Hume, A. W. Hall, F. D. Clayton, A. R. Porteous, W. Robson, A. L. Craig, A. J. Dixon, J. R. Fairley, E. J. Heffer (manager North End branch), R. A. Dixon (manager Wellington South ■ branch), E. G. Graham (Te Aro branch), M. J. Daniel (Petone branch), G. E. Watson, B. Mackay, H. J. EGwards, A. J. Ferguson, C. Hawkins, ~L. A. Greig, C. Campbell, K. H. Boyd, V. C. • Edwards, F. A. Letford, E. C. . Inkster, N. M. Chappell, C. H. Vincent, and representatives of the women members of the head office and Wellington branch staffs. The New Zealand Bank Officers' Guild was represented by Messrs. E. G. Edwards (president) and H. P. Mourant (general secretary). The Wellington branch of the Nelson College Old Boys' Association, of which the late Mr. . Moore was a past president, was represented by Lieutenant-Cplonel A. . Cowles (president) and Mr. A. N. .: Da vies (secretary), other members - present being Dr. W. P. Evans and .. Messrs. G. W. Barltrop, J. H. Fowler, and A. D. Moss. Others present included PaymasterCaptain E. L. Tottenham, R.N., Dr. G. H. Scholefield, Messrs. P. R. M. Hanna (general manager, National Bank of .New Zealand), L. Sinclair Thompson (manager Wellington branch National - Bank of New Zealand), T. P. Fother■ingham (inspector in New Zealand, Union Bank of Australia), W. H. Robertshaw (Wellington manager, Bank of Australasia), W. F. Airey and J. W. Burland (Reserve Bank of New Zealand), T. B. Heath (Wellington manager, Bank of New South Wales), J. * Stenhouse (Commercial Bank of Australia), E. P. Yaldwyn, E. L. Riddiford, J. S. Barton, Hope Gibbons, A. P. Slobombe, W. D. Gordon, W. Hammcnd, W. H. Cunningham, F. G. Willi- 1 and H. B. Burdekin (N.Z. Real Institute), Gordon Reid, C. D. Mo: .1, S. G. Nathan, W. Watson, jun.> C. A. £~ Treadwell, D. J. McGowan (Wellington Harbour Board), S. Cory-Wright, M. J. Kennedy (Wellington Gas Company), J. Buckleton, C. J. S. Harcourt, C G. White, N. S. Perry, F. H. R. Taylor, ,H. A. Gold, J. E. Schlcss, A. Schloss, H. Vickerman, T. E. Y. Seddon ' Leslie Wood, G. Tolhurst, E. W. Hunt, W.-S. Wheeler, R. Turnbull and V Hutchinson (Port Line, Ltd.), Captain. S. Holm and Mr. E. M. Bardsley (Wellington Chamber of Commerce), . Messrs. A. M. Pilcher, D. A. Ewen, J. C Peacock, F. J. Castle, W. I. Wright, W-. Norwood, L. Rothschild, P. Thomson J. 'P. Yaldwyn, L. Davies, C. W. Howorth, Dr. W. McDonald, Dr. Harty, Dr. and Mrs. A. Palmer, Messrs. G. G Solly, H. Parkinson, D. J. S. Smith, and A. N. Palmer, Mesdames Knox Gilmer, F. W. Dawson, and H. Chalmers. . j The many beautiful wreaths included those from the directors, the management, and the staff of the Bank of New Zealand. . At a meeting of the directors of the Bank of New Zealand, on the motion of Mr. John Dowgray, a resolution was carried expressing appreciation of the seryices of the late Mr. Moore and condolence with the relatives in their bereavement. The late Mr. Moore joined the staff of the bank at Nelson in April, 1893, so that he had completed more than 45 years in its service at the time of his death*