STERLING CITIZEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1939, Page 4

STERLING CITIZEN

MAYOR’S TRIBUTE TO LATE MR C. E. DANIELL. . SERVICES TO COMMUNITY APPRECIATED. “Since last meeting we have lost from amongst us a very well-known former councillor, Mr C. E. Daniell.” said the Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, at last night’s meeting of the Masterton Borough Council. He served as a Councillor during the years 1897-1900, but his service to the community is not to be measured in terms of his office as councillor.

“For the past 50 years, I believe, and for at least 30 years I know,” Mr Jordan added, “that no one has taken a greater interest in public affairs in. all their complexity than, he did. From his post as interested ratepayer and candid critic, a role he really revelled in, he was able perhaps to render greater service than he could have done from a seat round this table. He has left a remarkable record of public service, all the more remarkable because he was throughout his life a very busy man. He was a man of deep conviction and boundless energy, a great believer in the -gospel of hard work and selfreliance which he practised right up till the last.

“In private life he was generous and warmhearted. I have reason to believe that he was a model father to a very large family, and the centre of a family life that, unfortunately, is all too rare in these days. I should like personally to acknowledge many acts of kindness and generosity at his hands during my term of office here. Masterton has lost a sterling citizen and a warmhearted friend.”

On Mr Jordan’s motion, it was decided to forward a letter of sympathy to the relatives of the late Mr Daniell and also the council's appreciation of the service he had rendered to the Borough. Councillors stood in silence as a mark of respect.