TOKENS OF ESTEEM

Southland Times, Issue 17473, 13 October 1913, Page 2

TOKENS OF ESTEEM

MR P. DALRYMPLE FAREWELLED. Mr P. Dalrymple, of the local Deeds Office, who has -been promoted to Dunedin, was made the recipient of two presentations on Saturday. During the morning he was met by the staffs of the Lands, Deeds, and Stamp departments, on behalf of whom Mr W. W. De Castro, District Lands Registrar, made a presentation. He referred to Mr Dalrymple’s long and valuable services to his department, and to the Government, and congratulated him on his promotion to a superior position in Dunedin, wishing him a continuance of the success with which his labours had' tints far been rewarded. He presented Mr Dalrymple with a set of military hair brushes in a case suitably inscribed.

Mr Dalrymple, in die course of his reply, referred to the pleasant relations which had existed between the various departments, and he thanked the officers heartily for their token of goodwill. Later in the day about a dozen members of the Southland Law Society met in the office of the president, Mr James Harvey, to tender “to Mr Dalrymple a presentation in recognition of the esteem in which they held him. Mr Harvey said that it was bis honour as president of the -Society to express the regret that .so efficient an officer was being removed. They all recognised that however great might be their loss, he was being promoted, and they desired to congratulate him on having been selected for advancement. Every member of the legal profession recognised that not only was Mr Dalrymple a most efficient officer, hut lie was the most obliging officer who had been in charge of liis .department, "and no trouble was ever too great,for him in helping to clear up any doubts regarding old titles, etc. Every member of the profession would agree with him in that, and he had therefore very great pleasure in presenting him with a case of cutlery on their behalf. In acknowledging the presentation, which took the form of a large and handsome oak chest of cutlery bearing a silver plate on which the following words were inscribed :—“Presented to Peter Dalrymple, Esq., by the Southland Law Society. October 11, 1913,” Mr Dalrymple said that words failed him on such an occasion. He had been many years in a position which had brought him into close contact with the members of the legal profession, and looking hack he remembered many who were no longer with them. There were those who had retired from practice, among whom he thought chiefly of Mr Russell, senr., and there were others who had crossed the bourne whence no traveller returned. Among those who were still with them lie looked upon Mr Harvey as the Grand Old Man of the profession. His memory of Mr Harvey dated hack many years; but that gentleman seemed to have altered only in the respect that he had grown to look more youthful as time had-gone on. He did not intend, however, to detain them with a long speech, but he thanked them from the bottom of his heart for their references and the presentation.