SIR C. FERGUSSON

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 August 1929, Page 7

SIR C. FERGUSSON

NELSON SYNOD’S TRIBUTE. (Per Press Association.) NELSON, August 2. The Nelson Diocesan Synod enthusiastically carried a resolution expressing “deep thankfulness to Almighty God that a gentleman who has shown the highest principles of life has lived among us as Governor-General, and begs to convey to his Excellency, Sir Charles Fergusson, and the Lady Alice Fergusspn, its .sincere appreciation of the splendid example maintained by them during their stay in New Zealand.” In supporting the motion, the Chairman (Bishop Sadlier) said he was not likely to forget the remarkable address his Excellency the Governor-General had delivered upon the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the Nelson Cathedral. It was one of the finest utterances he had ever heard in his life from a man in the Governor’s position. The Governor-General was an elder of the Presbyterian Church at his home in Scotland, and a confirmed member of the Church of England, of which he had shown himself to be a devoted loyal and faithful member. Whilst he (the Bishop) was staying at Government House, family prayers were taken by his Excellency, when he committed New Zealand and his own household to the care of the Almighty for that day. Would that his example were followed by all his people.