LATE MR. E. JONES

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 26, 30 July 1940, Page 9

LATE MR. E. JONES

LARGELY-ATTENDED

FUNERAL

The esteem in which the late Mr. Edmund Jones, of Northland, was held^ was shown by the large attendance at his funeral, which took place this morning. St. Anne's Anglican Church, Northland, of which Mr. Jones had been people's churchwarden for 28 years, was crowded for the funeral service, those present including many old residents of Karori, Northland, and Wadestown, who had known Mr. Jones since his arrival in Wellington over sixty years- ago. There was also a large representation of past and present members of the staff of the Government Printing Office, where Mr. Jones was engaged from 1878 until his retirement on. superannuation in 1909, and where for a considerable time he was father of the chapel. The congregation also included representatives of the printing industry, business men, and the Church of England Men's Society, of which Mr. Jones had been a zealous member. Many beautiful floral tributes were received. The chief mourners were Mr. E. C. Jones (son) and Mesdames Hocking and Clapshaw, and Misses F. and A. Jones (daughters). The pall-bearers were members of the vestry of St. Anne's, Captain F. A. Macindoe, Messrs. W. Platt, F. A. Cotterell, W. Honsa, and K. Swiney, and R. Liggins (C.E.M.S.). The services in the church and at the graveside at Karori Cemetery were conducted by the Rev. J. E. Ashley-Jones, who paid a moving tribute to the late Mr. Jones's devotion to the service of his Master and to his long and faithful service at St. Anne's Church.