THE LATE MR. WADDEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9087, 22 June 1888, Page 6

THE LATE MR. WADDEL.

VOTE OF CONDOLENCE BY THE

CITY COUNCIL. At the City Council yesterday evening, a letter was received from Mr. Brigham, Secretary of the Harbour Board, notifying that a seat in the representation of the Council at that Board had been rendered vacant through the death of the late Mr. Waddel.

The Mayor said that the present was a favourable opportunity to refer to the death of the late Mr. Waddel, and to move, as he did, " That a letter be sent from this Council to Mrs. W. R. Waddel, regretting the death of her husband, and sympathising with her in her great loss." They all knew him—either as the Mayor, as a councillor, or as a friend—and they knew the zeal and interest which he showed in public business. With Mr. Waddel public matters preceded private claims, and the loss of such a man as he was felt by every citizen. It frequently happened that reiiolutions passed by public bodies were formalities, or somewhat of formalities, bufc the present resolution was, he thought, an expression of sincere and lasting regret for the death of Mr. Waddel.

Mr. Crowther seconded the motion. He had known Mr. Waddel for from ten to thirteen years in one capacity or another, and he had no hesitation in saying that it was the unanimous opinion that) he (Mr. Waddel) did his duty to the very last without fear or favour. He remembered that when Mr. Waddel was first elected a councillor he had to contest the seat with Mr. Malcolm Niccol, and he (the speaker) was one of the deceased gentleman's strongest supporters, and he never had had occasion to regret it. He (Mr. Crowther) had great sympathy for the late Mr. Waddel's family, and if ever during the remainder of his life it was in his power to do anything to help them or in any way forward their interests, he should be most happy to do it. Mr. PmixiPFS remarked that one reason which he had given why the late Mr. Waddel shouJd be elected as a councillor in the contest to which Mr. Crowther had referred, was that he had in Auckland's early days fostered the Oddfellows' Institute, whilst another was that he was one of the first volunteers of the colony. His death was sincerely regretted by all, especially as his death was accelerated by his honest endeavour to do his duty. Mr. Garratt pointed out that the late Mr. Waddel had preferred a good name to richee; he had left a good name behind him, and he had further left an example which the rising generation might well follow.

The Mayor's motion was carried, and Mr. A. Kidd was elected as a representative of the Council at the Harbour Board in the place of the late Mr. Waddel.