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Gaze History

NSG Memoir

OBITUARIES 

The New Zealand Herald: 

 

Former Head of Baptist Union Dead

 

Mr N S Gaze, an Auckland solicitor and former President of the Baptist Union of New Zealand, has died, aged 63.

 

He was a member for many years of the Baptist Union Council and was also on the union executive.

 

For 25 years he was a member of the board of the Baptist Theological College and was its chairman for seven years.

 

Mr Gaze is survived by his wife and three children.

 

 

The New Zealand Baptist:

 

 

Noel S Gaze

 

A large and widely representative congregation of over 300 attended a service in the Epsom Baptist Church on Wednesday, 3 August, to pay tribute to one much honoured and loved for his life of Christian quality and service—the late Noel S Gaze.

 

His service to our Denomination extended over the past 46 years commencing with work in the early days of our Young Men’s Bible Class Movement in which he was a class leader, member of the first Dominion Council, and later held the offices of Auckland President and Dominion Vice-President.

 

In his profession of solicitor Mr Gaze brought the gift of a trained legal mind to the service of the Kingdom of God and the files of his office contained records of much professional service performed for our churches and denominational organisations.

 

Actively interested in Baptist affairs, Mr Gaze devoted time to the work of the Auckland Association, was for many years a member of the Union Council and latterly of the Union Executive.