A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE PRESIDENT OF INGLEWOOD.

White Ribbon, Volume 36, Issue 427, 18 February 1931, Page 5

A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE PRESIDENT OF INGLEWOOD.

MRS J. B. SIMPSON. Again we have to report that the hand of death has removed from our midst a familiar figure. Wry suddenly, very quietly, with no warning, the call came, and our President. Mrs Simpson, passed to her reward. How we shall miss her. Our Inglewood Branch of the W.C T.U. was opened in the June of 191:2. and l>efore the end of the year Mrs Simpson was enrolled as an active menit>er. In the July following sir* became our President. My acquaintance with Mrs Simpson began with her enrolment under our lianner. Mrs Simpson was always a keen Prohibitionist, and has l>een an enthusiastic memlter of the W.C.T.I Her first District Convention as our representative was Waitara, then all in succession since 1923. As delegate at Dominion Convention und at New Plymouth, Napier and Wellington, she became a District Vice-President, and what joy to her to go to our weaker I'nions and do what she could to help and encourage them. She was ever ready to give a helping hand to the needy. Her car and driver were at our disposal for the extension of our work. She hath done what she could. Durham Road and District will miss her. That has been her place of residence for ulKMit 30 years. The Rest Room Committee will miss her, she having been a member for some years. The Cnion will miss her. Always at her post, consistent, thoughtful, and eager for the advance of our work, an*! ready to spend and l>e spent in Hi/ service. And now. The place that knew h a r shall know her no more. She has passed onward. Mrs Phillips, our District President, came to our meeting last January 2k* h, and in place of the usual devotional portion of our meeting, a Memorial Service was held. The service in our special service )w>ok was used. All members stood while our Vice-Presi-dent, Mrs I.ongltottom, paid a tribute to our late President. Many of our members have notic«l how frequently of late Mrs Simpson referred to the fact that the Ingle wool old Methodist Church was the church of her childhood. It was her spiritual

home, our devotional part of the meeting her joy. Mrs Simpson was born in Sussex Cl years ago, ami landed in New Zealand when five years old. With her parents, Mr and Mrs W. Jaiwerance, she cam - to Inglewood, und has resided in this district nearly all that time, so that she has watched the district from the early pioneer days. Our loving sympathy goes out to her husband and two daughters, Mrs J. Patterson, Kaimiro, Miss Simpson, and Miss Marjory Simpson, her ne ; ee, wh > has lived with Mrs Simpson from tin/ childhood; also to her aged mother. We f»*el our President’s message to us all would have Iteen “Carry on, carry on.”