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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2300, 6 November 1914, Page 3

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FAREWELL WORDS LEADERS EXCHANGE COMPLIMENTS. The final sitting of the present Parliament was held yesterday morning. The Legislative Council met at 9.30 a.m. The Appropriation Bill was received from the House and put through all stages without discussion. . file Hon. H. D. Bell, in moving the adjournment of the Council, expressed the sincere and earnest sense he had of- the very great courtesy shown to him since he had occupied his seat in the Council. He would always be able to look back on the last three years as a pleasant term, in which he was enoouraged by the confidence of the members. They wore a Conservative body, it was said, and he wanted to rive a last word in proof of it; In this session 60 years had passed since the first session of the New Zealand Parliament, and there was one sitting there who had sat there seven years after the first term. He referred to the Hon. Captain Baillie, who still served the country well. Next year Sir Henry Miller would have completed 50 years' service, and ho hoped that due commemoration would be made w'hen the time came. (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Captain Baillie thanked the Leader of the Council for what he had said. _ During the three years he had presided most amicable feelings had existed in the Council. He congratulated the Hon. Mr. Bell on the services, rendered by his sons with the Expeditionary Force. He congratulated hon. members, and the ActingSpeaker, and paid reference to the Speaker, who was unfortunately unable to attend. . The officers of the Council had done a great deal to assist in the smooth running of the machinery of government. He wished all a happy Christmas. The Hon. Sir William HallJcnes said that all members would join with him in expressing their appreciation of 'the tact and kindliness with which the Leader of the Council had conducted the affairs of the Council. The session had been an extraordinary one, owing to the war, and he thought the Government had done excellent work in dealing with the various matters arising therefrom. He congratulated the Acting-Speaker (the Hon. W. C. F. Carncross) on his position, and thanked the clerks of the Council, whom they all looked on as dear friends. The Hons. C. H. Mills, G.. Carson, W. Earnshaw, J. Fisher, T. M'Gibhon, and "W. Morgan spoke in similar terms." The Hon. W. 0. F. Carncross, in responding, said that he sincerely wished that the Speaker (the Hon. Sir C. C. Bowen) had been present. Ho thanked hon. members . for the kind words they had said With reference to him. ' The Council rose at 11.40 a.m..