SIR JAMES CARROLL

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1927, Page 4

SIR JAMES CARROLL

I [by TELEGRAPH —rER PRESS ASSOCIATIONO I WELLINGTON, June 25. I hi the House yesterday when referI ence was made to the death of Sit '.lames Carroll. Sir Maui Pom arc’s tril.ute wa> as follows:—“When 1 last saw the distinguished statesman alive he was paying his tribute at the niontimvnt to bis friend. Sir William Heri ics. The ojKUiing words of hi- ad- ' dress will ever remain with me. and as ] it was with him then so it is with me : 1,,-day. for he said: ‘My mind is as a ! hive to which are homing a hundred

honeyed memories.’ Oil a. solemn occasion like this I recognise my inability to adequately voice our sorrow or to express the fitting tribute we would all wish to pay bis memory. This is doubly so. seeing that messages of sorrow and love have come from all strata of the human structure, yen. from tile lonely Maori wharo to Lhe palace of the King. This expression from the sorrowing hearts of ihe nation is a real testimony to his worth. Sir .Tames was the most lovable man I ever knew—ever tolerant of others faults and always alive to their virtues. He spoke ill of no man. In the language of our mother’s people 1 say. •The giant tree of the great forest of Tune Ims been uprooted, the midpos.t of the Kahangangu House has fallen, the stars of the Maori firmament are becoming searse, the brother has left, the father has gone, the pataka of wisdom is no more, and the canoe "hieh bore, their troubles has been taken bribe Ocean Maid of TTawaiki— that mythical laud from which man came a,ud to which man must return. He whs called by his people a ‘Toka. W'alii Afoana’- a wave-breaking reek. And so lie was. for T will remember the time when the incessant clamour for land settlement at the expense of his mother's pcop'e might have been temptation to a weaker man. but not so to him. Il was through this determined stand that he "as dubbed 1 i lll i Tailmn.' but we who look back now see that his ‘laihoa’ land policy "ns the salvation of his race. Schooled in the university of experience, he graduated from the pa to the highest position in the land. He was an ardent apostle of the creed of Imperial unify, and when the tocsin of war sounded a I few years ago his voice was heard ox- | bol ting his people to arms, and thus he united the destinies of his father’s and mother's rates in mutual respect and affection. that together they might walk into the future confident

in meeting and overcoming the ti'iu:s by tlu> way and making this glorious little land of ours God’s own eoun'ry indeed. E Tiini. e koro. hnere ra."