FAREWELL TO COMRADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 826, 21 November 1929, Page 11

FAREWELL TO COMRADE

> COMMERCIAL TOURISTS’ SYMPATHY DEATH OF MR. PASSMORE I tlllE SEX’S Special IttpurUr.) KAIKOHE, Today. A it mail; of respect to the late Mr. i \\. M. l’iiasmove, a member of the * ommcrtt Train party, who died durniK a motor run round Kaikohe yesr.iday, his travelling companions dcs lay.-.l their departure from the town re well today to the train , bearing the body to the City. Shortly before nine o'clock a prool 1,1 * 1 - l * l l and inarched behind the . : cotfiu slowly to the Station, a third of a mile away. The pall-bearers were Mr. Malcolm Stewart, vice-president , or the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, Mr. A. (j. L.uun, past president,

Mi. 1.. A. Puish. H. M. Trade Commissioner, Mr. C. M. Croft. Canadian ■ I rude < ommissioner, Mr. K. Case;' ; ltivisiotutl Superintendent of Railway.-. and Mr. Harrison. The townspeople silently showed their sym- 1 pathy. ; i lie death of Mr. Passmore was felt j deeply on the train. He was of a i ‘‘beery disposition and entered fully into all the diversions, j The entertainment to have been -i vt ‘n at. Okuihau last, evening was < ancelled by the settlers at the request of the visitors as a tribute to Mr. I Passmore, and the evening was spent quietly. At dinner till stood in silence. A representative of the tourists is accompanying the coffin to Auckland. ESTEEMED BUSINESS MAN I , A Pi'iunincnt and popular figure in j j l ‘ l ° < lt - v s t’ommpicial life,, Mr. William ! | Montgomery Passmore. manager uf jDonaghy a nil Company. 1,ti1., rope and I ; twin.- manufacturers. whose tragic I I death occurred at Kaikohe yesterday 1 i [ ll °rniii:< during tin* Commerce Train J, K - s * all , his life becn associated | with this trade. I Mr. Passmore, who was 65 years oL ; ! ;l -y«’• rame t<» New Zealand front Hull •as a hoy. He starteil work in a rope l and twine factory, which his father ! smarted, these works being later joined I j wilii Donaghy and Company. After receiving a thorough training in all I ; loonehes of the trade, he worked him- . self to the position of manager of the Auckland branch, which he lias lndd for the past 2 6 years. Mr. Passmore is survived by his wife aad two sons, Mr. J. Passmore, of Wellington, and Mr. AV. M. Passmore, «>:* Auckland, and one daughter. Mrs! J- N. Shackelford, of Remueru. As a mark of respect a social, which w aa to have been held at Okaihau last I •■•veiling, was cancelled, and the departure of the Commerce Train for lvaitai.i, is to be delayed until the remains j *f the late Mr. Passmore are placed on the train for Auckland this morning.