SIR JOHN FINDLAY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 10

SIR JOHN FINDLAY

EDITORIAL TRIBUTE

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post")

DTJNEDIN, This Day. Tho "Otago Daily Times," in a tribute to the late Sir John Findlay, says:—"lt was a rather daring experiment on the part of Sir Joseph Ward to entrust the leadership of the Upper House to a mai who, brilliant though he might be, had enjoyed no practical experience whatever of Parliamentary life. Sir Jobs Findlay, however, justified the confidence which the Prime Minister had r«posed in him. He manifested a familiarity with the forms of Parliament that might have been envied by men with years of experience, and, by the ability he exhibited in preseating the views of the Government, he lifted the discussions in the Council to a level on which they had not previoutly been conducted. At his best he was a distinct ornament to the profession, I practitioner of very high attainment!, who had the faculty of penetrating fc> the very root of the problems in which he was engaged, and whose speeches vere polished examples of literary ejjlt.