No "Has Been"

NZ Truth, Issue 1181, 19 July 1928, Page 6

No "Has Been"

ADDINGTON (Christchurch) has.at XTL least two claims upon public notice. The metropoli'sein trotting course may be cited as one and a popular parson as the other. You may reverse the order of priority according to your taste. Thirty-seven years' hard . . . Has quite an ominous sound, hasn't it? But when the adjectival noun is applied to "service" rather than "labor," you have no inapt finding on Canon W.

8. Bean, vicar of Addmgton. ■ Throughout that long period he has slogged hard and ministered acceptably m the one parish— and he looks fit enough to become a Dominion record-break-er. He indulges m no frills, pulpit-thumping antics or ranting cacophony. Proclaiming simple hometruths m. simple language is more m his line. The late Richard John Seddon once facetiously remarked that he was lucky m his sons-in-law. Had not

one daughter married a business man who was competent to advise him on business affairs; a. second daughter a doctor who could prescribe for his bodily ills; and the third a parson, who, mayhap, could provide him with a passport to another world? In the quieter sphere of a populous suburban parish Canon Bean is as firmly entrenched m the hearts of the people as his illustrious father-in-law was m the hey-day of Liberalism. *