In Memoriam

White Ribbon, Volume 44, Issue 515, 18 September 1938, Page 7

In Memoriam

JRSSIK M\< KAY.

mora 11).- \\.( mm . mow us Hi • :i honoured and loved worker. ■ ssie M.n k.i\ wss on the Bdl s;.iii of the "White Ribbon" In \ dnyi iiiul always hei pen has i.i\ to help mil' work. foltowtn • reprint from a 'mi« h COI 11• sj>cmuJ♦ 111 and speaks \i m Ifncka) '■ mam ;i< 11\ ltie> il,.- Heavenl> Reapei has gathered her i ii.n \est, ■ shook i.t eoi n inil) of ihe moot honoured tu ureii In Zealand literature, iff fa aired 71. died t his morning. it Rakaia I loi ice \\ here her had i the 111 11- i- |..u I i f hor II ur) ami found inspiration foi ,t her finest poet i \ in ihe fool ounl ry irhere she •as boi n publication of hei volume ol i.atid of the Morning" mora • i nil tor of a centur) asm a i ortant • ent In 'he hbttor) ol \Yu 7. iland literature, contain i 4ome of tin- nobleol v< ree thai been Inspired b) the scenerj aditionN <»?" ihis >oans. count rj hlning in hor < harai t< r and hei the finest qualities of the with the fire, enthusiasm ami love of countrs typical of the »ftss M.n ka\ doTOted her ardent i and eloquent tongue and humanitarian progress and the ■ ; the oppressed, •tor) of Infamous Highland • a the • \ lotion of crofters to oon for doer parka In *hlch clan and family suffered. In i me of her Most passionate She found themes also In Maori from being ■ mora dreamer, V Mackfty was a ver\ pr:icln;il of political and social reforms. ,i political feminist, achieving ' deal for the betterment of - lot, and ihe worked hard In I lon which reaulted In the re aer friend Mrs Elisabeth M< - the first wossaa member of •. /..aland Huns.' of RepresentsShOUt In wars. Miss Ma<ka\ !> editor of the Canterbury to which she contributed an • amount of work. Baaed on Bom? yean of experience as ■ teacher dry schools, she contributed iluable suggestions towards the meat of educational mothodsi •II deserved honour was paid to M - Mackay when in ltSl She WSJ at delegate to the Irish ConferI'ans. Whora sh»- DJOt most of •' figures in fVltic literature and i tore. n the past f «*vv months Miss had received notice thai the Unto i Itj of New Zealand Intended to upon hor the honorar) d Of literature."

WHS. IMMA VI \N IMM t.l.Xs

On Pridaj last was laid I I the v w im> mon ii »'en • 'i. w h,> has through most of hei long lift years been s pioneer, ad and upholder ol the Temperance i ause. The name of Mra \ lan 11 well known throughout Tarsiiaki, for m the sai i> on ihe •• organising neu i Anions In the in.ill c mint i > (I About 1894, t'amiiy life, in w hich were < rowded troubles of man} kinds (having lost ■ ■ai of her infant children and l her hush and» he t hrew her • net mto 'I • mperani e w ork. Bhe the position of I Hst rict Pn Ident foi man) \<a\s. and it was through her \ ism hilt outlying districts and endeai ing herself individual)) to the mothers that \v <' t i '■ wei e f"' mod I lor manner was « heerful and coin:. i well as forceful and i Ileal and m» to a yeai ot fore her dealh her nam. always counted foi much In any movement of a Christian and philanthrophic nature Bhe also look • • interest In the foundfng and t.uniiiL: of the S> .inn n' la ■ I at M H l'l> moiit h. I Minn.. | ..in. of her last lucid moments sht icted her daughter lo send s Bubstantial lunation to 1 hat • i itution On the das "' '"'" funeral, man) in. nds and adm • ttended the \i. •■ in Whrtel) < 'hmch. and after* at the Uia\. • \ ■ left the chapel and wound round the woo-ied lull of this picturesque cometen to the shaded plot where laj her husband and children of mans ■• before we felt what ■ Itttni place of for our dear beloved comrade who had given oi h. i strength and energs that the race might be bettered and liv.-s and homes made mora secure for those aho cams after hi Wc fool her loss 'l'll.- work-is k us. but the work gOSS on Ml? Man Douglas lived an Inspired Christlsn life and her niemor\ and example are before us si an Inspiration. \ P M