RESOLUTION BY THE A. AND P ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11512, 19 February 1903, Page 3

RESOLUTION BY THE A. AND P ASSOCIATION.

Beforo the General Committee of the Canterbury A. and P. Association proceeded to transact its business yesterday afternoon, the chairman (Dr. Levinge) said that since they last met a great and good man had passed away, and the colony was poorer by reason of the death of the Hon. William Rolkston, and Canterbury had lost the example of a noble life. It would not be necesfiary for him to pass an eulogium on Mr Rolleston'e life, but when he remembered •how dear he was, and how highly esteemed he was by the farmers of Canterbury, he thougnt it would be a neglect of hie duty if he were to overlook the fact of bis death, xie would move—"That this meeting, on behalf of the Canterbury A. and P. Asssociation, desires to place on record ita profound cense of -ac loss thia colony, and more particularly Canterbury, has sustained in the lamented death of the late Hon. William RoUeston, and to express to his widow and family the assurance of ; ts sincere sympathy." Mr Anderson said he would like to support the remarks of the president. He might ■say that dn all the positions which Mr RoUeston had held during his life, with such honour to himself, and distinction to the country, no position would leave such a lasting effect, or such pleasant memories, as that of Superintendent of the Province. A young man almost fresh from one <~f the great colleges of England, and yet with actual experience of the rough life «f an early settler, *»o was called to fill thf prominent position of Superintendent of thie part of New Zealand. But it was not by his political career that we would best remember diim, but by the memory of a man full of the honourable ambition and ■high aims of a healthy, vigorous, and early manhood. His high sense of honour and duty had stamped an impression upon the younger generations of New Zealand ivfcich would never be effaced.

Mr C. Lewie, M.H.R., said he should like to draw attention to one fact of Mr Rjolleston's career, and one subject in connection with hisf. politics, with which, he thought they were all in sympathy. Mr Rolkston's politics began and ended in one word, and that one word was "home." It was the aim of his ambition from first to last simply and wholly to supply the people of the colony with the opportunities of gaining comfortable homes, and after that supplying them with such education as to make those homes attractive. Anybody who followed Mr Rolleston's career would see that was all he aimed at, to give homes to the people, and he thought it was one of the noblest and most unselfish ambitions with which a public man could be animated.

The motaon was carried.

. Similar resolutions were also passed by the Kaiapoi Borough Council and the New Brighton isohool Committee.