LATE MR. W. C. CARGILL.

Putaruru Press, Volume XI, Issue 538, 14 September 1933, Page 5

LATE MR. W. C. CARGILL.

j SERVICES RECOGNISED. Tribute From Farmers’ Union. Feeling reference to the loss the Morrinsville district had suffered through the death of the late Mr. W. C. Cargill, managing director of the Cargill Publishing Company, was made by speakers at the September meeting of the Morrinsville branch of the Farmers’ Union, held on Saturday. The president (Mr. R. A. S. Browne), in moving a vote of sympathy with the family of the late Mr. Cargill, and of appreciation of his work for the branch, recalled that only a month previously, at the August meeting of the branch, Mr. Cargill had given an address on “ Derating From the Transport Angle,” and members appreciated this masterly address. “ A Real Educator.” “ Personally I feel his passing very much,” added Mr. Browne, “ because I had known Mr. Cargill ever since 1907, when Mr. Cargill, who was then residing at Patea, was a member of the Wanganui Education Board, and I was a young specialist in the service of the board.” Mr. Brown paid a tribute to the energy and organising ability shown by Mr. Cargill as a member of the Education Board in those days. “ Coming to Morrinsville, almost the first man I met was Mr. Cargill,” continued Mr. Brown, “ and when I joined this branch of the Farmers’ Union I came into touch with Mr. Cargill again. The reriod during which I have known Mr. Cargill is a great span of a man’s life. - “He was a real educator,”- continued Mr. Brown. “ He did not only take an interest in a subject, but he wanted it to go on in the right way. He could mildly reprove his intimate friends when their opinions were wrong, and they were made to feel that there was a spirit of comrade- I ship behind his reproof.” Uniting Town and Country. Mr. G. H. Pirrit (a past president of the branch) moved that the branch place on record in the minute book its appreciation of the work Mr. Cargill had done for the Farmers’ Union and for the whole district. “ Mr. Cargill was one of the men who have tried very hard to bring ; town and country together so as to view problems in the same way,” said Mr. Pirrit. “ He always considered that town and country must get together before there could be any real progress. The passing of Mr. Cargill ig> a sad loss to the Farmers’ Union and the district.”

“ A Deep Thinker.”

In adding bis tribute, Mr. F. Colbeck (a member of the Auckland executive of the Farmers’ Union) said that only in the last 18 months had he really got to know Mr. Cargill—to know that Mr. Cargill was

a deep thinker and one trying to improve the affairs of the 4 country. “ I appreciate his deep qualities,” added Mr. Colbeck, “ and feel that if we follow his lead in public affairs we are not going far wrong. I think that if I had discerned his good qualities sooner I would have been the better for it, and it would have been better for the district. It was simply that we did not understand each other.” BUSINESSMEN’S TRIBUTE. Reference to the loss the Morrinsville Chamber of Commerce sustained by the death of Mr. Cargill was made by the president before commencing the ordinary business of the meeting. Mr. Cargill had been a tower of strength to the chamber throughout his long business association with Morrinsville, and his addresses on topics of the day had been valuable contributions to the deliberations of the chamber.