FUNERAL SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 10

FUNERAL SERVICE

LATE MR. J. FINDLAY

LARGE ATTENDANCE

Government, shipping, banking, insurance, and mercantile interests generally were represented in the large attendance of people who paid their last respects today to Mr. James Findlay at his funeral service in the cathedral church of St. Paul. For 25 years Mr. Findlay was the New Zealand representative of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co., and during his long service with that company he made a host of friends and was an outstanding personality in shipping circles. The service was conducted by the Rev C. H. Isaacson and Canon D. J. Davies, after which the cortege,left for the Crematorium, Karon Cemee?he chief mourners were Miss Findlay, sister of the deceased, and his naphew, Mr. Michael Connell. As a mark of respect to Mr. Findlay the offices of the Shaw, Sayill and Albion Co., Ltd., in Wellington were closed to the public today. The pall-bearers were members ol the statt of the company-Captain A. Mcjntosh (marine superintendent), Captain A. Black (assistant to the marine superintendent), and Messrs. Ian _ 3,^ (chief accountant for New Zealand), j S Swan, N. A. Henderson (chief passenger clerk), and M. C. Barnett (stevedoring accountant). a .„_ Among others present at the service iwere the Hon. W. Nash (representing the Government) and Mr. T. R. Aickm, Mr E. V. Bevan (New Zealand assistant manager of the Shaw + Savill CoO, Mrs. Bevan, Mr. D. Robertson, Mr. K. Miller (chief cargo superintendent), and other members of the staff of the Shaw, Savill Co.; Messrs. C. G. White TdSector), J. N. Greenland (general! manager), W. H. Price (local manager) and J. Neale (assistant local manager), representing the^ Union Steam Ship Co.; C M. Turrell (director and general manager, also chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board), L A Skeet (acting traffic manager and acting local manager), P. J. R. Fordham, and F. W. Spite, representing the New Zealand Shipping Co.; A. G. Barnett, T. R. Barrer, E. D. Cachemaille, D S. G. Marchbanks, Wellington Harbour Board; A. D. Bayfeild (Federal Steam Navigation Co')* N D. Binnie (assistant manager), R. A. Turnbull, J. Corry,. and Captain SEA. Gregory, representing the Port Line, J. Hooper (T. and W. Young and Anchor Shipping Co.), W. Lukejmd T. Coveney (George Scales and Co.), W. Luke (M.A.N.Z. Line), W. Rogers (Anchor Co., Nelson),. B. Miller arid Captain G. P. Hall (Marine Department), Messrs. R. C. Brian (Overseas Shipowners' Allotment Committee), A. Champion, H. Desborough, L. B. Meredith (formerly in the London office of the Shaw, Savill Co. with, Mr. Findlay) Captain J. E. Dawson, Messrs. F. Prince, W. E. Fussell, W. T. Ikin, J. M. A. Ilott, R. W. Kirkby, J. Marchbanks, .W. S. Milne, M. F. Luckie, W. F. Ward, E. A. Blundell, H. P. F. Blundell, H. L. Nathan, J. McLean, F..W. McLean; C. Pearce, A. E. Mabin, and G. W. Morgan (Levin and Co.), W. Ahem, Captain! Rainey, Dr. C. J. Reakes, Messrs. D. O. Whyte, E. Gilbertsdn, G. G. Shirtcliffe (A. S. Paterson and Co:), B. Balharry, W. E. Reid, H. J. Buck, G. J. Reid> Brian Reid; C..-W. D. Bell, A. K. S. Mackenzie, H. E. Evans,.and E. D. Blundell (Bell, Gully, Mackenzie, and Evans); D. O. Williams (director), F. W. Dawson (general manager), H. R. H. Chalmers (assistant general manager), representing the Bank of New. Zealand; Mr. H. I. Thodey (Bank of Australasia), Sir James Grose, Messrs. P. R. M. Hanna (general manager), and L. Sinclair Thompson (Wellington manager), representing the National Bank of New Zealand; N. W. Nelson, A. Young, the Hon. Vincent Ward, M.L.C., Paymaster-Commander E. L. Tottenham, R.N., and Mrs. Tottenham, Captain Grave Morris (Navy Office); Messrs. Guy Johnston, A. D. S. Duncan, L. O. H. Tripp, R. Boulter (his Majesty's Trade Commissioner), J. Milne; Gerald Bell, F. J. Jones, R. Darroch (secretary of the. Navy League), Walter Saunders, O. R. Bendall, W. E. A. Gill, Captain F. A. Macindoe (secretary, Merchant Service Guild), Captain C. McArthur, Captaini A. V. Hale-Monro, Dr. W. Young, j Messrs. G. D. , Lidgett (surveyor to Lloyd's Register), Roy Cable,. E. F. Richardson, J. C. Peacock, M. C. Barnett, P. J. Townley (president of the Marine Underwriters' Association), S. Cory-Wright, Frank Taylor, Eric Lawson, C. J. S. Harcourt, A. Walker, J. T. Cross, G. Osborne, A. H. Hollis, R. C. Addison (Bank of New South Wales), L. C. Gibbins (general secretary of the Underwriters' Association), Dr. G. W. Harty, Messrs. C. A. L. Treadwell, J. Flood, A. D. Park, Neil McLean (Huddart, Parker Co.), E. Bucholz, A. M. Tartakover, C. C. Brady, H. Dawson, Lawrence D. Nathan,! Colonel J. J. Esson, Sir Alexander J Roberts, C. C. Miles, W. Ballantyne, sen., M. G. C. McCaul, W. T. Rae (Blue Star Line), Duncan, and G. A. T. Woodcock (Primary Products Marketing Department), John Fraser, and G. C. Smith (New Zealand Meat Producers' Board). ■