PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 813, 10 May 1910, Page 8

PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

EXPRESSIONS OP SORROW AND. 'LOYALTY. Yesterday being the regular date for a meeting of the Petone Borough Council, all the councillors took their places at the. table at the usual hour in the evening. Tho Mayor (Mr. J. W. M'Ewan) said that since the last meeting of tho council news had been received of the death of his Majesty King Edward YII. Ho' was also in receipt of a telegram from the Prime Minister relatiye to the pro-, oed'ure to bo followed in connection, with mourning ceremonials. Tho Mayor tiien moved a resolution, which, with a subsequent addition, road as follows: —■ "That. tliis_ council adjourn until. Monday evening next, as a mark of kspect to the memory of the late ! King Edward YH of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, and that a letter be sent

through tho proper authorities expressing -our sympathy with Queen / Alexandra in. the loss she has sustained, 'and our unlimited loyalty to the Throne." ."I am not given onoocasions of this kind," oontinued the Mayor, "to mako Tise'of many words. I, however, wish to . say that I heartily join my voioa with those who have eulogised our late King Edward VII. The fierce 'Ugh." that beats upon the throne has revealed a man; of strong humanitarian sympathies. I need only'recall one remark of his—that we are aU Socialists—to show that he. had .much sympathy with the "demand for. an improvement in. the . pocfel : conditions of the people." Mr. M'Ewan then, referred to 'the troublous times ahead of the Homeland Smd said, one could have desired that iEjng. Edward's .life ;had'been presjiTed, ■i bo that', the Empire_ might ; have had ' the benefit of' his wise, counsels; But it wis, not to be. . A stronger. Will and Power had .One could but Jay iwith the poet: .'"Tie pages of thy .life wo read; - And as. we close each one, Out hearts responding ever, say "Servant of God, weir..done!'" ■' Councillor.. Short seconded the mo-; Son. : He briefly eulogised the ..-lata King,. and "expressed the • hope that his Successor would • follow\ in his' footsteps, and worthily' fill his place.-' Councillor Piper said : the occasion ."washot oho" for. many/words, but he would' like 'to emphasise all that' the Mayor had said. " He also" suggested adding to tho motion an expression of sympathy with ; the widowed Queen. The addition'Wai 'made by--consent jtrf the'council, v and-the-motionwas then y . . , tarried by the councillors rising to their Jeet in silence.