THE VALUE OF SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18730, 9 June 1924, Page 9

THE VALUE OF SERVICE.

BISHOP AVERILL'S VIEWS.

fBT TELEGRAPH.—OWN correspondent.'} HAMILTON, Sunday.

An address on the need and value of service was delivered by Bishop Averill at a meeting of the Hamilton Orphans' Club last evening. There was a large attendance, Mr. J. A. Young, M.P., presiding. Bishop Averill spoke of the wonderful service that the Navy was doing for the British Empire, and he asked that every support be given to the fleet. Speaking of those who had rendered valuable service in New Zealand, the Bishop said that no man had endeared himself to the whole of the people of Niiw Zealand more than the Governor-General. The quality of Lord Jellicoe's greatness lay in his simplicity, geniality and kindness, and his very human touch. .In losing the GovernorGeneral, the people of New Zealand were losing a personal friend. He. had served the Empire well, and in this country ho had drawn the people closer together, and thereby had assisted to promote the unity of the Empire. Bishop Averill also made an appreciative reference to the honour of knighthood which had been conferred on the Mayor of Auckland. No man, he said, deserved the honour more than Sir James Gunson, who had rendered such great service to the city and province of Auckland.