CITY'S TRIBUTE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 4

CITY'S TRIBUTE

LATE MR. M CGOWAN

LARGELY-ATTENDED

FUNERAL

The very large number of friends, personal, business, and official, who attended the funeral yesterday afternoon of the late Mr. D. J. McGowan, gave evidence of the high regard in which his memory will be held as a friend ■ and as a man who gave good service to this city. The Terrace Congregational Church, where the Rev. H. W. Newell conducted the service, was filled, and from other centres in both islands a wealth of floral tributes was received. A Union Jack draped the csskct Mr. Newell said that Wellington had lost a good citizen, a man of dynamic personality, and a man whose smile turned easily to friendly and under-, standing laughter. Because of the many enthusiasms he had displayed for the city and those about him Wellington was poorer by his passing. The hymn, "Abide With Me," was sung by the congregation, and the "Dead March" in- "Saul" was played on. the organ. __ _ T The chief mourners were Mrs. D. J. McGowan, Mr. R. A. Metcalfe (cousin), Mr E. J. Cooke (brother-in-law), Mr. R. Cooke (nephew), and Mr. W. B. Nicholson (cousin). 'The pall-bearers from his late residence, 54 Glen Road, to the church were the oldest employees of the firm of Messrs. McGowan and Magee, Messrs R Hall, L. Watson, A. Jennings, E. Rell A. Andreassen, and A. Gibson. From the church the bearers were Messrs. A. Hall (McGowan and Magee), J. Jack (treasurer, Wellington Free Ambulance), R. H. Nimmo (president, Wellington Chamber of Commerce), J. Myers (Wellington Winter Show Association). W. L. Fitzherbert (chairman, Wellington Harbour Board), and E. P. Hay (president, Wellington Rotary Club). Among those present were the Prime Minister. (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser), Mr. Justice Smith, Sir Charles Norwood (president, Wellington Free Ambulance Association), Mr. J. W. Heenan (Under-Secretary of Internal Affairs), Mr. E. Magee, Colonel F. Bowerbank (Director-General of Army Medical Services), Messrs. J. W. Andrews, C. H. Chapman, M.P., J. O. Johnson, G. London, W. H. Price, C. M. Turrell, A. G. Barnett, E. D. C. Cachemaille, and J. F. B. Stevenson (Wellington Harbour Board), C. G. Macindoe (Auckland Harbour Board), D. A. Ewen (District Governor of Rotary), Sir Alexander Roberts, Messrs. J. M. A. Ilott, E. Casey (General Manager, New Zealand Railways), Dr. G. Craig, Messrs. F. W. Furkert, W. Norwood, W. D. Gordon, W. Gray Young, Hope Gibbons, Councillors M. F. Luckie, W. Appleton, and W. Duncan, Messrs. E. P. Norman (Town Clerk), K. E. Luke (City Engineer), J. Neale (Union Steam Ship Company), S. J. Castle, W. E. A. Gill, J. J. Reich, N. Macfarlane, and F. Campbell (Scoullar and Company), B. Ginger and A. J. Curtis (representing the New Zealand and Wellington Master Carriers); W. E. lorns (Colonial Carrying Company), J. P. Gaynor,. H. J. Knight (New. Zealand Society of Customs Agents), F. Roffe (Wellington Free Ambulance), W. R. J. Blythe, Captain S. S.- Holm, Messrs. S. W. ■ Peterion, A. R. Hislop, A; L. Wall, P. E. Fattrick, E. Bardsley (Welilington Chamber of Commerce); E. E. Brooking and W. Hustler Smith (Commercial Travellers' and Warehouse- | men's Association). J. J. Stellin (Anzac Mounted Division Association), E. Kellow, P. N. Denton, T. Waugh, W. Bailey, A. Bannister, M. Martin, E. Rowe, P. C. Watt, J. Rod, R. Telford, J. W. Penman, D. Taylor, A. Fletcher, J. Burns, C. C. Odlin, A. D. Hall, A. Hamilton, H. Buck, Major J. R. Kirk, Messrs. C. Harbottle, H. Nathan, A. Press, A. Cramond, A. Longmore, H. Amos, E. W. Wise (Mayor of Eastbourne), A. J. Hyams, A. Johnston (Wellington Boys' Institute), H. H. Newton, N. Manthel, C. W. Budd, W. Dutton (St. John Ambulance Association) ,J. Jack, A. Meek, R. L. Archibald, C. W. Smith, S. Harcourt. R. T. M. Edmonds, T. M. Donovan, J. I. Goldsmith, J. G. Marshall, Dr. C. G. F. Morice, Messrs. C. Spratt, ■■ R. Keesing, M. Heinemann, W. W. Cook, A. M. Smith, C. R. Vickerman, J. Baldwin, R. Darroch (Navy League), C. S. Falconer (V.M.C.A.), C. M. Banks, J. Aston, J. W. Carr, H. A. Bown, H. F. Wood, W. H. Hindle, L. M. Watkins, H. G. Teagle, D. H. Edgar, M. Marks, Colonel H. E. Avery, Messrs. H. H. Miller, H. S. Fairchild, A. P. Walker, A. J. Hyder, J.- Macintosh, F. W. Vosseler, H. F. Harper, A. Mulligan, J.

R. Riddell, M. G. C. McCaul, A. L. Hunt, and T. W. Leslie.

The late Mr. McGowan was a member of the Herbert Teagle Lodge of Freemasons, which lodge was represented by Messrs. Herbert Teagle (W.M.), J. W. Penman, D. Taylor, H. Gustar^ W. RusseU, ?. Peterson, J. Rod' J. Mclntosh, E. Magee, H. H. Newton, J. W. Heinemann. H.-N. Morris, A. Martin, Young, B. Pike, W. Hart, B. Keesing, Major J. R. Kirk, and Miss BuU (representing Mr. Edward Bull).