LATE T. C. LIST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 196, 20 August 1934, Page 8

LATE T. C. LIST

GREAT SERVICE TO ROTARY OBSEQUIES AT WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON Apg. 18. A funeral service for the late Mr. T. C. List was held at St. Paul’s ProCathedral to-day. There was a large attendance of members of the Wellington Rotary Club, and amongst those present were representatives of the Legislature, the newspapers, and the commercial community. Canon James, who conducted the service, paid a tribute to the memory of Mr. List, speaking not only as vicar of St. Paul’s but also as a Rotarian “With tragic suddenness, so that we can scarcely believe it.’’ he said, “our brother T. C. List has been taken from us. A few days ago he came to this city as Governor of Rotary in New Zealand. He had completed his term | —a distinguished term of office, but with characteristic sense of duty he took up the burden again until his successor’s health should be restored. ‘T.C.’ died in harness, and as we remember him presiding in the assembly a day or two ago in the fullness of his powers, with an infectious keenness that spread from him through the whole assembly, we echo those ancient words, ‘Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.’ His personality was strong and attractive; but personal influence depends upon what a fan is. 'T.C. ’ was a good man—sincerity shone in his face, moral earnestness rang in the tones of his voice as he declared his conviction —many hearers remember—that the hope of a better world lay in our following the precepts of the Sermon on the Mount. The ideals of service and. brotherhood of which he spoke he strove to follow in his own life, both in his profession and along many avenues of public service; “Nearest to his heart,’’ said Canon James, “was the welfare of the crippled children in New Zealand. He gave the last months of his life to pleading their cause —planning and working for them. It is enough for a man that such work should be his memorial. To us his death is a tragic loss. To his nearest and dearest we offer our tenderest sympathy. Let us not think of him—it is not possible to think of him—as dead. He is alive—alive unto God in the higher life, in the larger fellowship beyond, hearing the words of the Divine Master who has prepared for him new and greater opportunities of service. ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant.’ ” The chief mourner at the funeral service was Mr. J. W. C. List (brother of Mr. T. C List), of Lower FLutt. The pall-bearers were past-presidents of the Wellington Rotary Club—Sir Alexander Roberts, Messrs. D. A. Ewen, D. J. McGowan, E. W. Hunt, Dr. F. W. Bowerbank, and Mr. H. G. Teagle Amongst those present were: The Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes (Prime Minister), the Hon. R. Masters (Leader of the Legislative Council). Messrs. Walter Nash, M.P.. F. Campbell (president, Wellington Rotary Club), N, Bell, A. W. Hawley, C. W. Salmon, W. H. Earnshaw, H. Amos, C. W. Budd, J. T Martin, John Myers, J. T. Inkersell. W. G. Rees-Jones, N. W. Stevens, W. P. Walker, Dr. Alex Gillies, Messrs. D. C. Peacock, M. E. (Denniston, L. J. Greenberg, H. H Newton, E. P. Hay, A. Fletcher. F. C.’ Spratt, A. Longmore, A. G. McGowan, S. B. Harris, G. Gore, W. Gray Young, E. A. Blundell, J. Hott, J Austed, J. Annand-Smith, A. B. Lane, E. Harper. J. Baldwin, R. Cable. J. W. Carr, Toomath, D. McKenzie R. L. Button, A. A. Cramond, N. B. Gibbons, F. R, Jones, W. A. Martin, J. C. Riddell,’.D. H. Taylor, J. M. Thompson. H. Vickerman, P. C. Watt, C. E. Wheeler, P E. Pattnick, and F. Feist. The following cable message has been received from headquarters of Rotary International (Chicago):—“All Rotary will mourn passing of that great man and esteemed comrade, Tom List. Most sympathetic condolences family and fellow Rotarians.—Chesley Perry, Headquarters Secretary.” The funeral will take place at New Plymouth on Monday. THROUGH WANGANUI ROTARIANS ACCOMPANY HEARSE ‘ The hearse carrying the body of the ■ late Mr. T. C. List, governor of Rotary I in New Zealand, who died at Welling- I ton on Friday afternoon. passed through Wanganui on the way to New i Plymouth yesterday morning. Some 30 members of the Wanganui Rotary Club motored out to Marybank to meet i the hearse, and then accompanied it as i far as Westmere. There were some 1-1 , or 15 cars in the cortege. . On account of the death of Mr. List. ; the Wanganui Rotary Club will not , hold its weekly luncheon to-day. ‘ Members of Rotary Clubs in the j various towns between Wellington and New Plymouth, in addition to Wanga- ’ nui, also accompanied the hearse for a few miles.