FAREWELL TO MR RUDDICK.

Otago Witness, Issue 2413, 31 May 1900, Page 27

FAREWELL TO MR RUDDICK.

Mr Watson said as that was the last meeting at which Mr Ruddick would be present, they should recognise his services to the colony and their regret that family considerations necessitated bis removal. — JHear. hoar.) The

value oif the services Mr Ruddick had rendered to the ''dairying industry fully entitled him to such a resolution. _ All who had come -in contact with Mr Ruddick highly appreciated the willing manner in which he was always ready to give information. In losing Mr Ruddick they were' losing- the services of an extremely good man.— (Hear, hear.) | Perhaps they were consoled to some extent ' by the fact that they had another good man to take his place : he referred to Mr Kinsella. — (Applause.) As they were about to lose^ Mr Ruddick, he would move— " That this meeting desires to place on record its appre- ( ciation of the valuable services rendered to the dairying industry by Mr Ruddick, and its regret that" family -considerations necessitate his removal from the colony." i Mr J. Milne, president of the National Dairy Association, secor.ded the motion. Be had been brought into contact with Mr Ruddick _ more perhaps than any other person in this ' part of the colony, and ho had always found his advice very valuable. No doubt, Mr Rud- : dick was very cautious, but it was a good \ point in any gentleman holding the, position that he held. The National Dairy Association would feel the absence of Mr Ruddick very much, although they fully believecl that Mr Kinsella would prove an able successor. — (Applause.) Mr Ruddick thanked the meeting heartily for the way they had responded to the resolution. He was not leaving New Zealand without a pang of regret for he had made some warm friends during the eighteen months t he had spent in tl>e colony, and it would not be too much to say that as long as he lived ' his sojourn in New Zealand would be one of the brightest spots in his memory. — (Applause.) As the mover of the resolution had remarked, family considerations had had a ( great deal to do .with his decision to leave the i colony and return to Canada, and he must j say he had felt it somewhat when one or two 1 papers, in referring to the matter, had ignored , the real reasons for his leaving, and attributed it to something else. He again thanked the dairymen and the people of the colony for the fiiendly way in which he had been treated, ; and he took that occasion of publicly thank- • ing those who had. extended such kindness to him on many occasions. — (Applause.) A vote of thanks to the Agricultural and , Pastoral Society for allowing dairymen and i others the use of the board room and the Vie- \ toria Hall was carried with acclamation, and < the Chairman acknowledged the compliment on behalf of the society.