PRESENTATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6256, 5 December 1881, Page 2

PRESENTATIONS.

On November 15, a large and sympathetic audience, consisting of the whole of tho employes of Aratapu .Sawmills, with their wives and children, together with a few past employed who wished to take |)art, assembled in the Aratapu Public-hall, to express their regard for their late general manager upon the occasion of his retirement from his position in the concern, by a presentation, consisting of a handsomely illuminated address—massively and elegantly framed—and signed by the workmen at Aratapu, with just 100 original signatures. The address was also accompanied by Chambers's Encyclopaedia half bound in calf in ten volumes. Prior to and after the presentation, various pieces of music, reading, &c, were given. Sir. Monk replied to the presentation in au address of twenty minutes' duration, replete with wisdom and sympathy. After a few hours' dancing the company dispersed, highly delighted with the evening's meeting.

The friends of Mr. 11. A. TCeesing met that gentleman on the IStli in the Publichall, Cambridge, to bill h ; —i farewell on his departure, and prescnte.. him with a memento of their kindly regard, in the form of a gold albert-chain and locket. The presentation was made with a suitable address by Mr. T. Wells, on behalf of some forty subscribers, and was feelingly responded to by Mr. Kecsiug, who is as popular here as, for a generation, he has been in your city to which he now returns.

On November 22 a number of the friends of the Rev. W. Calder met on the lawn at the Hamilton Hotel for the purpose of presenting a valedictory address to the Rev. W. Oalder, who is leaving the district for the Thames. The Hamilton Band was in attendance, and considerably enlivened the proceedings. When all were assembled, Mr. S. T. Seddon addressed those present, saying that during the twelve years he had been a resident in Waikato he had attended many public meetings, but never one in which he felt morchearty sympathy than the present. They had met to do honour to a kind, true-hearted sympathising Christian man, whose untiring energy during the past six or seven years among them had borne ample fruit, not only in Hamilton but in the surrounding districts. Some people had blamed Mr. Calder for going further and further into the outdistricts, where Sunday observances were extremely lax, but the fact that these new districts have demanded and are now about to have resident clergymen appointed to them, is proof at least of the etiiciency of his labours. Twelve years ago, the church waa only a small one, and the receipts only £30 per annum; now they had a large church, parsonage, Sunday-school, and an annual income of £400. He thought Hamilton was fully entitled to the services of a resident clergyman, and hoped the Rev. Mr. Lush, his old and highly esteemed friend, seeing the cordial manner in which his predecessor had been treated, would accept it as a token and proof of the sympathy they were ready and anxious to extend to himself. Mr. Seddon then turned to the Rev. Mr. Calder, and presented him with a handsomely engrossed memorial address, and a purse of 100 sovereigns. Mr. Calder acknowledged the presentation and gift with a few appropriate remarks, and the band struck up " For he's a Jolly Good Fellow." The school children also made a presentation, and many of those present took the opportunity of bidding Mr. and Mrs. Calder farewell.

Mr. W. It. Smith, assistant manager of the Union Sash and Door Company's Sawmills, Tairua, after six years' in the company, was, on the eve of his departure, presented with an address by the employes of the company, in consideration of his long service, and his integrity and impartiality. He had earned the respect and goodwill of all the employes, who greatly regretted his departure. Mr. Smith thanked tlic men for the address, and trusted the goodwill hitherto existing between them and himself would continue to his successor.