MR W. LOCK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 May 1938, Page 3

MR W. LOCK

THE HON. J. A. HANANS CONGRATULATIONS

Among the many letters of congratulations on Mr Lock's 80th birthday, a tribute is paid by the Hon. J. A. Hanan, M.L.C., a former Minister of Education and the present Chancellor of the New Zealand University Senate. The following is an extract: "Your many •years of faithful, and efficient public service, crowned with so much work, and numerous duties, represent a very creditable career ... a life and service which should furnish to the youth of this country lessons in public and private virtues, which are the more forceful because they are examples, rather than precepts. Further it is true to ob-. serve that you rose to high public positions with no aid but your merits, and wtih no claim to recognition but your fitness. "The years to which you have now lived exceed those of tile allotted length of man's life. They indicate that you have lived a sober and simple life. I do not think the following words of Adam in *As You Like It’ entirely inappropriate as applying to you: ‘Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty, For in my youth I never did apply Ho* and rebellious liquors in my blood. Nor did not with unbashful forehead Tlie means of weakness and debility. Therefore my age is as a lusty winter. Frosty, but kindly, let me go with you. In all your business and necessities.’ "1 ioin with your numerous friends in expressing the hope that you may be spared for many years to enjoy fully the 1 •ure, and that happiness which your character and public services rightly merit. Before closing it is but right that I should not omit to make some appreciative reference to Mrs Lock, your Worthy helpmate. Her unshrinking public spirit, and self devotion to philanthropic ;nd altruistic causes, have 1 know commanded public admiration and must have endeared her to the popular heart of the City of Nelson ’