SERVICES RECOGNISED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 20 September 1929, Page 2

SERVICES RECOGNISED.

TRANSPORTATION OF REFUGEES

IN EARTHQUAKE ZONE. In recognition of liis splendid services in connection with the transportation of West Coast refugees during the recent earthquake, members of the New Zealand Motor Trade Association and the New Zealand Wholesale Motor and Cycle Traders’ Association last evening presented Mr B. F. Spiers, garage proprietor, of Murchison, with a set of cut glass and crystal ware. The presentation was made at the farewell cabaret tendered to the delegates who have been attending the motor traders’ conference just concluded. Mr D. F. Bauchap, president of the Wholesalers’ Association, made the presentation and said that everyone in the Dominion had read in the newspapers of Mr Spiers’s work in the earthquake area. There was nothing to add except that he was one of the trade and something of a national hero. He had taken on a superhuman job in an hour of stress and carried through in splendid fas.hion. Mr Speirs briefly responded, and thanked the delegates for their expression of opinion. He declared that there were others more deserving of publicity who had rendered valuable assistance during the earthquake experience, while he had only done what anyone else would have done under the circumstances.