A HIGH TRIBUTE

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1930, Page 6

A HIGH TRIBUTE

FROM LABOUR ALP

(By Telegraph—Press Assoeiat.on)

HAMILTON, April 8

The Labour member for Raglan, Mr Lee Marlin, despite criticism levelled at him in a certain Labour journal for Ins recent eulogy of the Minister df Pubic Works, Mr Hansom, says that is is not to be deterred tfroin voicing 1 1 ns holiest, opinion and giving credit whci'e credit is due.- -Last night speaking at the Raglan Town Hall; on the occasion of the visit oi the Minister of Education, i Mr,-Atmore, Mr hoe Martin paid a tribute to him, describing him as “one of the best Ministers of- Education New Zealand has ever bad.” The speaker said bo must be fair and honest • when-S|)eaking oi the work which TM,r Atmore had at> eomplished, not only in connection with improvements in the educational system and his efforts to retard tile drift to the towns, Imt also for what he was ■ doing as Minister in Charge of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Reaisearch. Mr Lee Martin said that he would make hold to say. that if the work being done by th" •officers detailed by the Minister to investigate the problem of cattle sickness, which was so prevalent in so ill any districts in the Auckland province, was brought to a successful conclusion, Mr Atmore would earn the commendation and thanks of thousands of farmers who to-day hardly knew which way to turn because of the losses they had experienced. The speaker was sure that what the Minister was doing in directing this research work over a very large terri-

•••-■ portions o*f which the speaker n i*(l others were privileged to visit the previous day, would make his name stand out as one of the finest Ministers this country had had. Mr Lee Martin added that ho could honestly nay this tribute without feeling that ho was in any way soft-soaping or hack-rnhhinnr. “Tie is a poor sort of man who cannot give credit where credit is due. even though that credit, is to a nolitirnl opponent,” concluded the member for Raglan,