THE LATE MR. HOLDSWORTH.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 7270, 12 September 1884, Page 6

THE LATE MR. HOLDSWORTH.

The ordinary meeting of the committee of the Benevolent Institution met on Tuesday at the Corporation offices, there being present Messrs G. Allen (in the chair), Revs W, H. West, H. Van Staverea, Redstone, Hinton, and J. Patterson, Councillors Danka and McKenzie, Messrs H. S. Wardell and C, P, Powles, aud Mr A. G. Johnston, secretary and relieving officer. The chairman, before the business was entered upon, said that since their last meeting they had sustained an irretrievable loss in the death of their late chairman, Mr J. G. Iloldsworbh, He felt bo was expressing not only his own opinion, but also that of the whole of the committee when he said that they had lost the services of a good man. He trusted that some member of the committee would table a motion on the subject. Councillor Banks then moved the following resolution “ This committee desires to place on record its sense of the great loss sustained by the Benevolent Society in the removal by death of the late Mr J. G. Holdsworth, who for several years discharged the duties of chairman of this institution with marked efficiency, and who Ins ever manifested a djep interest in the poor of the city/ 1 It was further resolved “ That a letter be written to Mrs Holdsworth, expressing the sympathy of the committee with her in her bereavement, and that a copy of the above resolution be forwardel," Councillor Banks remarked that he had during the past few years invariably found their late chairman ready at any moment to listen to a tale of digtress, Mr Holdsworth had proved himself to be a faithful servant of the public, and he only hoped they would be able, as a committee, to find as faithful a man to occupy the chair; The Rev H. Van Staveren, speaking as a committeeman of seven years' standing, said that their late chairman’s work had gone before him' and would live after him. Mr Holdsworth was, iu every sense of the word, a valuable mm. The Rev Mr Redstone heartily endorsed all that had been said, and added that the poor of the city had iu the late Mr Holdsworth a true friend. Mr Alien stated that he had not only lost a co-worke?* in the institutions of Wellington for a period of 33 years, bat also a dear friend. The motion, after some further remarks on the part of the Rev J. Paterson and Mr H, 5* Wardell, waajagreed to unanimously,