PRESENTATION.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 596, 4 January 1921, Page 2

PRESENTATION.

MR. T. E. MCMILLAN FAREWELLED. A very pleasant little function took place in the TIMES Office on December 24th, when the staff gathered in the editorial department to bid farewell to the retiring editor, Mr Tiros. E. McMillan, on the eve of his departure to take up an appointment as managing editor of the " Ohinemuri Gazette " Pacroa. On behalf of the staff, Mr F. 11. Hewitt, presented Mr McMillan with a handsome set of carvers as a token of esteem and goodwill. He wished the recipient every happiness and prosperity in his new venture.

Responding Mr McMillan, who was obviously taken completely by surprise, paid a feeling tribute to' the donors. He had been in charge of the TIMES for some twenty months, and although there had been times of stress and strain incidental to the running of a business he had for the most part been blessed with a good staff who worked loyally in with him. The acquisition of a good staff could not be effected in a day, and the leaving behind of such capable and loyal assistants was one of his greatest regrets at severing his association with the TIMES. He always treated members of the staff' as colleagues, endeavouring to do justice to them on the one hand and to the company employing them on the other. This was sometimes difficult to arrive at, but he had done his best for both

parties. The speaker remarked that the general public, after voting the considerable improvement in the TIMES, wrongly gave the editor all the credit for it. As a matter of fact without the whole-hearted co-operation of the staff, literary, printing, mechanical and commercial, an editor could make little or no progress with a newspaper, but he had been favoured by loyal cooperation. Mr McMillan once again thanked the donors for their kindly sentiments and wished them every happiness in the future.

The little function terminated with cheers for Mr McMillan, who departed for Paeroa by the Thames express last Wednesday.