VALEDICTORY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5258, 30 March 1928, Page 3

VALEDICTORY.

FAREWELL TO MR; MIACKLOW. PRESENTATION by clubs. People of Turua, and particularly members of the local cricket, tennis, and football clubs, assembled at the Turua Hall in large numbers on Wednesday evening to bid farewell to Mr D. Macklow, the popu|lai- solicitor, has been secretary apd a prominent playing member of each of the clubs for the last three years, and who is leaving shortly to commence the practice of his profession in Auckland. In asking Mr Macklow to accept from the members of the three clubs K, a s a token of respect and esteem a C suitably Inscribed gold watch, Mr W. Madgwick referred to the sterling services rendered by him and declared that his departure would be a great loss to Turua and to the; Hauraki Plains.

The president of the Hauraki Plains Rugby Un’on, Mr H. Dent, voiced the appreciation of. the union of the services rendered to Rugby football in the district by Mr, Macklow. To his work could be attributed the success of the Tuma teams last season, for the organisation of the cilub was the main factor in its victory, and to Mr Macklow was due, the credit for this , organ’sation. The loss of such an efficient club secretary would b- a blow to the Rugby Union. He was pleased to learn that the club had beqn able to secure a capable sucV. cessor, but anyone following Mr / Macklow would have a hard row to hoe to maintain his standard. Mr J. C. Miner, on behalf of his broths, Mr J. G. Mil Her, president of . the -Hauraki Plains Cricket Association, said that the district would lose a great cricketer in Mr Macklow, who was always the fiist man selected foi representative teams. He felt sure that his name would' soon bei seem figuring largely in big cricket. The presence of so many at the farewe function showed that Mr Macklo.W was respected in his profession as well as by the followers, of sport, and they would all he pleased to hejar -0 his success in li's profession and as a, cricketeT. ’’ Replying, Mr Macklow said thjit hitherto he had not realised what a goqd chap he was. His, work as secretary hid been a pleasure to him, • and the way the members of the clubs had worked and their successes in the competitions had amply repaid Irm for all he had done. The games had brought him into touth withsome of the finest men he had ever, met, and he now really believed that there was. a greater proportion of really good sports on the Hauraki Plains than anywhere else in New Zealand. He wished he could take his friends with him, but as that was not possible he hoped to.sec many of them in Auckland. He' expressed sincere thanks for the present, which would ever remind him of three very I happy years. ' the evening songs wej’e contributed by Mrs Fox and Messrs T. D. Wallace, H; Owens, and C. Muller. Mrs Mules played the accompaniments, and the music for the dance was supplied'by Mrs Mules (piano), Messife L. Henwood (cornet), J. Miller (violin), T. Kerjby (banjo), and H. Aberhart (drums), while; Mr A. Williams played several extras. >