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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 430, 18 March 1890, Page 3

Al the weekly meeting of the Gisborne Phonographic Society on Saturday night the opportunity was taken to expeeas regret at the departure from the district of Mr Herbert Watson, whose University studies necessitate his absence from Gisborne, Mr H. T, Jones, after alluding in thankful terms to the assistance which Mr Watson bad gi’an the Society, proposed a motion aokaowifdging Mr Vfatson's services to the Society, and conveyinc Ifi* wishes of the members tor bis future buses*. 'Tbs moiian was seconded by Mr DsQcsta, who ileo spoke in a very gomplimsntary strain, and it was Carried by efia'am*. lion. Mr Watson was subsequently nomi natsd as an honorary member, He modestly replied, saying that he was grateful for the high opinion members entertained of him and pleased that he should have been able to a«s|st tfip Society, but he had done no more in that respect lh*n other members. The work of the Society must necessarily ba limited, and only those who persevered could reasonably bop* to make goad progress, or rsiaia what they had learnt, in the art which .the Society promoted. But, speaking from i experience, he could say the Society was doing good work—work that was not confined solely to the study of shorthand, and he could not but regret that he could not longer participate ib tfiefi work, though he would be freqMntb revftillugOiaiidttre, apd Hico hoped to s*v<> tk* pi«**att of reiumlog Ms mcainubl^,’