PUBLIC BENEFACTOR.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 471, 4 June 1932, Page 9

PUBLIC BENEFACTOR.

Mayor Refers to Death of Mr T. J. Edmonds.

Reference to the death of Mr T. J. idmonds was made this morning by he Mayor (Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P.). “ The death of Mr Edmonds removes rom our midst one of the most philanhropic citizens we have known,” he stated. “Mr and Mrs Edmonds, to :elebrate their fifty years’ residence n this city, generously provided the iew band rotunda and the clock tower lear the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church. These are undoubted assets to ;he city and have been very much Ldmired by visitors. These gifts will ceep the memory of Mr Edmonds fresh n the minds of the community. Mr Edmonds also arranged for the layout >f Cambridge Terrace in the vicinity >f the Rotunda and named it Poplar Crescent, after his birthplace.

“ The gifts to the city included the >rovision of an organ in the new Colombo Street Baptist Church, and a ite for the proposed memorial to the ate Professor Bickerton in the vicinity *f the professor’s former residence. Mr Edmonds was noted for his private harity, and never turned a deaf ear vhen approached for assistance for ny deserving cause. “On behalf of the City Councillors, he citizens and myself, I have sent a etter expressing our sympathy with ■frs Edmonds and her family in their >ereavement, and I am sure that that xpresses the feelings of the whole of he people of Christchurch.”