Way of Webb

NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 6

Way of Webb

IT takes a man of grit and courage to pull up the deeply-sunk roots of

seventeen years' growing; gather up his household impedimenta; hoist his diminutive "flivver" on to a railway truck; and steal away to pastures new. Pretty green pastures m this case; they happen to be m Taranakl. It can be done of course. . . But quite a lot of people are liable to. be hurt m the process. So it happens that an army corps of friends arecoaIsidefably upset at the flitting of Herbert Webb from Thames to Hawera. Probably had he confined his activities strictly to his job as organist and choirmaster of the Anglican Church his departure might have caused but a ripple m the accustomed calm of the poluccid social pool. But that was not the way of Webb. Would this or that function or charitable project benefit by his professional help? Then could it be had m full measure .for the mere asking. In his own quiet way he helped the old toyn along quite a lot. . . Thames and the Hauraki Plains are going to miss him pretty considerably. Not big as inches go, but full of beans and chirp and kindly hunian understanding:. '.■■>'.■ ' Music is deeply ingrained m Webb for he coine3 of a well -Kiown family highly skilled m the production of magic notes.