IN APPRECIATION

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17126, 22 April 1921, Page 7

IN APPRECIATION

NAVY LEAGUE'S EX-PRESIDENT HONOURED.

PRESENTATIONS TO ME AND »&S A. BOYLE.

. Members of the Canterbury branch of ' the Navy League mustered jn strong force in the Navy Halt last tnVbt to honour the League s dent, Ut Alex. Boyle. Mr H. J- ' slarriner, the president of the League, was in the chair, and on the platform W ere Mr and Mrs Alex. Boyle, 3lr and Mrs Henry Holland, Mr C E. B.«-ar, ' Brown, and Mr Alex, ferguseii. Amongst tic letters received apologia'jhg for ibsence were otes from the Hon. fib- Heatoii Ilhodes, Minister of Dliferice, and the Hon. C Louisson. 31 LC Sir Heaton Rhodes wrote: L am well aware of the good work Mr Boyle has done, and shill be glad n you will express 6n ihy behalf my aation of his excellent services to the Navy League." ~>,., , , . The chairman said Mat they had ■gathered to nay a tribute to their exfr'gsidont. 3lr Boylte—(applause}—who Held tlie Office from 1910 tts 195*0. H ffߧ ft tTUe afld trite saving that tho ,||iifiy fltati ■''always found time to do BtWethihg cb'j: it was especially applicable" tO'Mf BovlCj who iiccCptcd office Mthe hiost strenuous time iio British Ifiiiion had ever pdssed through, and itt Tflieh the oUtlook for tho nation fB-iad- Black us it could be. Dcsptte ti terrible ttfairi of that period, Mr S)jU bad brotiglit the Canterbtity *iWh Oi the League info its present JoWiShing condition; (Applause.) Betho important tiling doho Mr Boyle'n nresldency, Mr 3lrti- " «nef made special "mention df the fimd - ■#;■■«6o,ooo raised irt 3Vestland, MiiflMlisViffly and Canterbury fol the dcjjteritlant* Of the men killed in the naVa! • jing&gbriients ddring the war—a CohtHtttttfon that- hAd brought fortlh tfa> tfiahkS of the British Admiralty;, lleftifenee waS also made to the part p!ayW>W the' Boyle family Jh defence ot ffljlg fljad country—Mf Martiner iiieti- ••'■. tippuig Mr B&yle's dhcestor who fdUghb fiimMrei battles during the NapfirMomVWafd,Jhis relafcitre'who teok part ijkihevi«hef'Of Khartoum, end his son his baptism oh board , Jutland. (Applause.) ..H.fS,ilr- A. Ferguson, as one of Mr 'Boyle's oldest fflefldfly said that he ac- !. Runted it a privilege to be present. '- rHS'remembereljWjr Soyle nearly fertt jjjfeafs Mb iii. South X'aflterbury. and, ,VWsfai:m flight 6f time, Mt fiqylo .iipfe 'was, as Jhen, young, debonair, Mflio, geherotlS. feelings ahd instihctsi , ;>iTm.fctiula iidtj he. felt Sure, express '>s& deepltf, the fSelia'g they: had , lor ■v:.ofrM&iW& mtk 6bm jot the League 'floyfe:' • ■'; '■■■vMih'-O. E. Bevan-Brown eaid that Mf ■rlßttyle and he wert shipmates frqm EngvOThdin 1884, Am they had been.friends Beyie.had accepted the bosi:'i^mtitf pfesideht In 1910. with some blit the Work'Be aticoni'. -lUMed shoWed th&t his tnodeaty was ■tfssntiiely unjustified. The League was a ritf flourishing COfiditToflj fthd wis boUfld to sdy that duffonf yeafs of office : r Mh&>l]6&&id became well 'established, jvlffld had iiever looked' bttcfej; and was IPM *fogreS*ingV (ApblaUSe.j He did >:: Mot think that there had been A ihdre ?sffifflJaous *i me fo f &reat Britain, *from Kmrn-jiKrii point el vlewV than the Bre7:jpn't; 'aM he hoped, that m Mf und Mi's were not leaving for the Oldi3!s»hd; that ihey Would MVe Mr Boyle the committee of the Le4gue> l^mve^theln-iMvrj^fleflt. oi, his advice, i^pt'wpkedjfi,!*.there.was to be a su'icicompetitive race between, the gtfltejj tefJapStt in the matter K'lafinaval • constructioni ; President HarditleiJi'gihadvithrown out to;hint that bettor IliitOTfinps would prevail." and that some SIMM a#eWnem would be afriveo; at; they could not afford that S*tfib British lfjeet should take, second m muat be kept equal to that of SpitrdngesTjtdwei l . Tliat 5HP*t (that. Neiv- Zealand 'would. n6 mm&r be 1 able to eadfte ott the Mother #;6junttf, »Nttir. v Zealfltid; Would have to bay as ;1 fflttehper head-as the British frdiking-Sjtoi4-.(Hear)-"hear*). fteferHug to an the "Round, table 0 «n the »pii9#;fef u ina'uitaialtig- a "white .^litralfft Bevaa-'BroWri empMsisiiiipiti pint that this could be done AhstrallftWd New Zealand s«MWfering; their share of the east of .MbHHittfefeHce! the mmai th* depehdahts Of havftl Mf Beyoa-Bfown said that it was the energy whleh OTa|:«dyleha4 thrown into hiswerk as of. the Canterbury brahdh, chairman, on behalf of the Mfersi.then.presented With a silver salver, and Mrs salfer bo/e the inscflption.Beyjei tidnn. mtn the Zealftlid) Branch Of WmWtfo'>s?*&*' JP a|>preciatiett.; m&mf. Bbyia, who ft-aa-.received with said that -he a wa* cdnir ,by i the handsome jf|M CbStly'natureoosf s their jgiftj It was WMjfiffi: great pleaßuie; for him to kaow ee greatly ; appreciated ipmfS«-aene.;diirjng'his, term of office He realised that. the had justified Its t exi9tvm carried jout its original, the British Kavy must be fleets fii- aay, two., hatal .fei the League how as at any. period At the close of the was that the great cOst 0 ™? 1 curtailed fis much J^|j|Spible v But \vhoh they saw other "ttuat on naval construction, ■■fMSlitheh' they remembered that Brt(fflTOSMlStenceVa'S a hatioh depends on #^wwti| J .hot See that |S|^f7'Wuld go .haoki- despite ; the gi'eat Msl!&fa^™ A 2& an " dependehciea.' K4*lih»P>o waii ehlytihe thipg SMW-"a6p^Britaitt, inuSt build, ;to the that any nation lntehd'Swlwilaffi^ > OuHrigtheijast few weeks gone through) atid Wa& pftWi.pie* if they were, to believe that <s%«Bed hf the true feelings, of #ey would have reaSdii to feel mmfiipim Bat he' strongly helieved r|#|t ahotit by oifttfcde Bfitbh trades unionism that,.at hbttom, Eng sound as'a nation as ever mmk WMV (Applausel). The fiblsheflsm IlipSyauing on\the Cohtiheht had ihfect r Ipechiome extremists in England, who had ijtftried'to'fßlte it upon the unionists. Mr cited the result of the Bewdley i& which Mr S. Baldwin Labourite candidate's lis an. indication of the soundness ' the British people, tommehting that so the; Strike was a.tflal.'of nhibfti|mj unionists could not have got a IgWtter Chance to show-their than thiit seat; (Heaf. heai?.) |fi?|ey;were, he added, depehdentfih the |||Ml|djfer of the British nation, afad that ifilplulOT must M backed up by the 1 §|[f Wkets of the natibh. Heferrifig t«f Mfwhat had been accomplished during hid j 6f "office, Mr Boyle paid A tribute assistance he had received from": He briefly appreciation of and thanks |(||fwith« r-rcseJrtdtidtt mftde to her. .; Wi -'Wwers-were given"..for Mr. ahd >Mra §|BMp'and also for <'The. Sailor Boy." SSteDnnhg the evening a pianoforte solo, Spji:played by Misg-Lorrimer and songs hyMiW Osborne hhd Miss feilfj^W^^*ii)Sht; refreshments were prdthe remainder of the everifelMlpnSoK of the hatuii* of ftjjeafeiS