LAID TO REST

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 66, 22 March 1929, Page 5

LAID TO REST

Mil A. J. HAKE'S ItJNEEAL.

"HE FINISHED LIFE NOBLY." The funeral of the late Mr A. J. Barr took place yesterday, and was very largely attended. Some hundreds o£ people, in a leng procession of cars, followed the hearse to the cemetery, and many others stood along the streets and silently paid their last respects as the cortege passed. Preceding the hearse was a lorry laden with magnificent floral emblems, between sixty and seventy of these having been received. At the late residence, and again at the church a guard of honour was formed by Boy Scouts, for which organisation Mr Bart did mucl valuable work. These stood at the salute as the coffin was borne past. It! was a touching) tribute. At Holy Trinity Church a short but most solemn service was held, and was conducted by the Vicar, Rev. Canon J. L. A. Kayll, who also officiated at the graveside. In the course of the service the Vicar paid a heartfelt! tribute to Mri Barr in an impressive address. THE VICAR'S ADDRESS. "It is very hard indeed for me to speak on this occasion," said Canon Kayll, "but I feel I must refer to the qualities of manliness in Mr Barr which so impressed all who knew him. It is indeed an honour to have been acquainted with one who lived and finished his life so nobly." With Mr Barr, the preacher said he had formed a close personal friendship, and he went on to refer to t|tie deceased's unfailing courtesy, integrity and high sense of duty. Mr Barr had been a wise counsellor, and even if he could not accept the other man's point of view, he would try to understand it. "Devoid of personal ambition, his only wish was to acquit himself worthily in the cause t'o which he had been called," isaid Canon Kayll, "and in all things he served as a worthy man. The memory of my personal relations twith him can never be effa'ced. I feel I have lost a personal friend and the loss is irreparable. Stratford will be a different place without Ar- . thur John Barr."

The pallbearers were Messrs Cutfield (Holy Trinity Vestry), E. H. Lrinnell (A. and P. Assn.), H. Marchant (Friesian Breeders), D. O'Sul livan (Jersey Breeders), G. A. Carter (Automobile Assn.) and R. V. Kay (Progress League).

Practically every local organisatioi was represented at the funeral, and a great many people came from other parts of the province. It was a sad coincidence tlhat Mr Barr died on the 21st anniversary of the day on which he left England to come to New Zealand.