DOMINION STATESMEN.
PERSONAL TRIBUTES. In introducing to members of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce at today's luncheon the speaker of the day, Sir George Fowlds, the president, Mr. H. T. Merritt, said that Sir George was a member of 35 years' standing, and an ex-president. He was the only ex-presi-dent who had occupied a Ministerial position in the New Zealand Government. As Minister of Education he made his department a model of efficiency, and without being invidious, he felt justified in referring to Sir George as the finest Minister of Education the Dominion had had. (Applause). In the course of his address Sir George Fowlds had occasion to refer to one of his colleagues in the Cabinet, the late Dr. McNab, Minister of Agriculture. Of him he said: "He was one of the best equipped men I have ever met in the Parliamentary life of this country. He i was a man of high ideals, a man of . definite convictions, a man you could , always find where you would expect [ that he would be."
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1928, Page 9
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174DOMINION STATESMEN. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1928, Page 9
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