SIR HENRY BRETT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19549, 31 January 1927, Page 8

SIR HENRY BRETT.

The death of Sir Henry Brett takes from the life of this city a very interesting and notable personality. Some of the activities of his long and arduous career took him into contact with the outer world, but he was first and foremost an Aucklander, ,with a firm faith in his city and a love for it that led him to make munificent gifts to aid and mark its progress. He gave himself—in very loyal service to its development as a municipality, finding probably his greatest satisfaction in being elected, unopposed, after labours in less conspicuous spheres, its chief citizen. No more devoted son of the city—for this in effect he was by virtue of his younger years being given to employ ment here that brought success without any lure to wider fields—ever sat in its mayoral chair. The other gifts that serve to perpetuate his memory were obviously prompted by his wish that the things in which he had found delight might be widely enjoyed by all his fellow citizens and those who should gather here in after years. They form a very fitting monument. Long as his name will be cited as that of one who, by never-failing courage and endeavour, wrested success from circumstances not often overkind, these gifts will speak his cherishing care for the pleasant things without which the most achieving life is poor indeed.