FINE RECORD OF SERVICE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1939, Page 4

FINE RECORD OF SERVICE

PRESENTATIONS TO MR DENBEE ON HIS RETIREMENT. TRIBUTES BY COUNCILLORS. At last night's meeting of the Masterton Borough Council, Mr T. T. Denbee, who recently retired from lhe position of Town Clerk, was presented with a handsome brass log box and fire screen by the council in appreciation of his lengthy service. The Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, said that the council had recently officially placed on record appreciation of Mr Denbee’s services. They now wished to extend their personal thanks for his kindness, courtesy and forebearance. They all wished him all the best of health, happiness and peace in his declining years. Mr Jordan then made the presentations, “as a reminder of our good feeling towards you.”

Other councillors endorsed the remarks of the Mayor. The DeputyMayor, Councillor W. White said Mr Denbee had always been the embodiment of courtesy. Councillor W. Kemp said he had shown a great deal of patience and had always been most obliging. "Mr Denbee was a municipal encyclopaedia,” said Councillor R. Russell

“It is not so much the value of these gifts as the spirit which underlies them,” observed Mr Denbee. He derived great satisfaction from the knowledge that he was going out without the semblance of a grudge against any of the councillors. In the future he would meet them rather as friends than as employee and employers. The loyalty of the borough inside staff through the years filled him with gratitude. Mr Denbee mentioned that as further tangible reminders of his pleasant association with the borough he had two handsome bedroom chairs, the personal gift of the Mayor and a beautiful chiming clock presented by the borough inside staff.