MR CAMPBELL FAREWELLED

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1906, Page 2

MR CAMPBELL FAREWELLED

The members of the Hokitika Borough Council and some leading citizens met at the Empire Hotel yesterday afternoon to bid farewell to Mr .]. K. Campbell, who has been Town Clerk at Hokitika for i l -- past nine years, and who has accented a. position with Messrs Mark Sprot and Co. at Grcymouth. The Mayor (H. L. Michel, Esq.) in a laudatory speech expressed his high appreciation of the valuable services rendered by Mr Campbell as Town Clerk, which had always been efficiently carried out to the entire satisfaction of the Council. While regretting his departure, he was glad to know that ho had obtained a very responsible position in the northern town, and he heartily wished him, Mr Campbell, and family, every success in the future. As a memento of his stay in Hokitika ho asked the acceptance of a handsome silver cnlree dish. Mr G. H. Kisfclder welcomed Mr Campbell on behalf of the firm of Mark Sprot and Co, and Mr McNaughton followed with a eulogistic reference to the valnahle services rendered by Mr Campbell, and his sense of the deep loss Hokitika would sustain on his departure. The health of the guest was toasted and Mr Campbell replied at length, expressing liis feelings of gratitude to the people of Hokitika for the kindness always extended to him and the pleasure it had 1 always been to work under the Mayor and with the staff of the Council.