REV. FIELDEN TAYLOR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 1 June 1937, Page 2

REV. FIELDEN TAYLOR.

IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL. WELLINGTON, June 1. The bells of St. Peter’s yesterday morning knelled the departure of one whose influence and example within the sound of those bells have been ■xemplary and far-reaching. The funeral of the late Canon T. Eielden faylor, miesioher of St. Peter’s, was a remarkable tribute to a man whose life was one long effort for the welfare jf others. The funeral was one ot die largest seen in Wellington for a .ong time. Not only were the City Mission L’iiapel and the main hall in Taranaki r>Leet tilled to overflowing long petore the funeral service began, but the entrance and approacii were -nronged with mourners who must have iiumu_red some / 000 or bOOO. Even die winuows and verandahs of the shop premises opposite the mission were i-nronged with Chinese, who knew the iate Canon Taylor as a good man and, with others, mourned his departure from among them. The funeral service was held in the Jity Mission chapel, every seat being occupied. The cervine opened with a procession of the clergy of the Church if England, headed .by Dr. T. H. oprott, late Bishop of Wellington, inder whom the canon had serveu for o many years. The service at the City Mission and die crematorium was conducted by the dev. H. £>. I. Kenny, vicar of Petone, .i ho was assisted by Rev. E. M. Mcjevie, vicar of Roseneath. During the service the casket rested n the centre aisle of the chapel, drapid with a Union Jack, upon which ested hut one wreath of scarlet flow■is, that of the widow. It was at the peeial request of Mr Taylor that no loral tributes should mark his departire from this earth. The pall-bearers at the City Mission vere representatives of the various organisations connected with the St. Jeter’s Mission. The cortege was headid by a numerous representation of eturned soldiers who had seen active orvice with the late padre. Those present included the ActingJrime Minister (Hon. P. Fraser), Mr C. C. A. Hislop, Mayor of Wellington, iir. George Sliirtcliffe. Flight-Lieuten-mt W. Mann, representing Wing-Com-nander Hon. R. A. Cochrane. Chief if the Air Staff, Lieutenant-Colonel ). FI. Mead, Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. {owe, Wing-Commander T. M. Wilkes, Jhief Staff Officer (Equipment), Rev. vV. Langston, acting vicar of All iaintis’, Palmerston North, Lieuten-uit-Colonel A. Cowles and Mr J. 1 pence, president and secretary respectively of the Wellington Returned Solliers’ Association ; Lieutenant-Colonel i>\ Bowerhank, Toe H; Brigadier Jreen, Salvation Army ; LieutenantColonel J. Hughes, D. 5.0.; Air J. Cummings. Commissioner of Police; Hon. W. M. Perry, M.L.C.; Mr S. J. Harrison, secretary of the New Zeaand Returned Soldiers’ Association. “REALLY GREAT MAN.” “Canon Fielden Taylor was one of ;he really great men of the diocese,” lec-lared Rev. W- La.ngston, actingvicar of All Saints’ Church, at the annu.il meeting of the Takaro parishioners last evening, when reference was made to the passing of Mr Taylor, the Wellington City Missioner. Mr Langston said he had attended the funeral service in Wellington yesterday, when he had been impressed not on yby the 'ar'ze crowds who had attended, but also by the big proportion of down-and-outs” and cripples whom Mr Baylor had befriended. “It did one good to see the tremendous respect, added the vicar. “We are left in this position that there is not a clergyman m the whole of New Zealand whom we can ask to take up this work. A motion of svmpathy was passed with the widow aiid relatives of Mr Taylor.