Port Albert.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 August 1911, Page 5

Port Albert.

(Own Correspondent).

The monthly meeting of the Band of Hope was held last Thursday evening in the Methodist €hurch. The meeting was a large and enthusiastic one. The president, Mr C. Strand occupied the chair. 3?he programme for the evening contained some twenty-five items, consisting of songs, recitations, readings, and speeches. Mr Thomas Gubb, in neat address, referred to the great loss the temperance party had sustained in the death of Mr T. E. Taylor,, and proposed the following motion, which was carried without dissent. "That the Port Albert Band of Hope convey to Mrs T. E. Taylor its profound sympathy in her great loss, and expresses its high appreciation of the noble, and self-sacrificing efforts of her late Husband, in the cause of all true reform."

A memorial service to the late Mr John Legge was conducted in the Methodist Church last Sunday week. The preacher, Mr Strand, taking for his text the words of St. Paul in Timothy ii, 4 chapter, 7 and 8 verses. " I have fought a good fight, I have finished my courge, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day." During his discourse, the preacher said that Mr Legge had been a Christian for 66 years, and a Methodist local preacher for 65 years. His last sermon was preached only a fortnight before lie died. He visited Mr Legge on the day of his death and amongst other things asked him if he was suffering any pain, to which he replied, " No, no pain, I am only tired." Mr Legge had a remarkably healthy life, for during the whole of his eighty-two and-a-half years, he never had the services of either a dentist or a doctor, until the visit of the doctor on the day of his death.

The name of John Legge stands in this district for everything that is upright and honourable. The preacher concluded by making an appeal to those present to follow in the steps of so worthy a man.