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WELLINGTON TOPICS

THE LATE' .MI! H. E. HULL AX])

STOUT FIGHTER, TRUE TO WORD

(Special Correspondent)

WELLINGTON, October 11

Few menibei's of the present House of Representatives «•»•« so fully informal upwi importaut public aftaws as was Mr H. K. 'Holland, the member fop Bit Her, wlio passed away suddenly on Sunday >!ast after paying aei appropriate tribute to the Maori .Ring, Te Rata, Mi hula, who had * preceded him over flic great divide only a few days before. The leader of the Labour party in the. House never had been in robust health since he came to Xew Zealand twenty veals before, but with rtll his physical disadvantages, increasing 'with the progress of the year s , he .strove unceasingly for the promotion of the betterment of the workers and their dependants. Though the efforts of himself and his colleagues may not ialways have been fruitful, tliev at least have awakened a large .section of the community to the need for 'Social and national reform.

The morning paper, editorially reviewing the career of Air Holland during his fifteen years in the Dominion’s Parliament, emphasises rather the difficulties he encountered than' the obstacles he overcame; but to its credit, it did .not withhold the measure of the. man. “Mr Holland,” it said, “devoted most of hi K life to the cause he- had at heart. Although for years his health was not robust, he never spared himself and maybe he hastened the end by unwillingness to relax the discipline he imposed om himself. . . A stir sis? sense of duty animated him in" his life and work. . . He accepted as .a mission the improvement of the lot of the working man, Socially, politically and economically. His aims were largely secular, but he pursued them with the singleness of mind and fervour usually associated with spiritual ends.” Here, ,at. any rate, are tributes to -a frank and earnest man.

The evening paper, with more time to .review the position " than had its morning contemporary, takes .an equally appreciative view of the good qualities of the man. “The inflexibility of purpose was maintained by Air Hoiland,” we are told, ‘when ft appeared that there was little hope of the (country ever accepting the Labour doctrine. He believed in the policy himself, and lie was never discouraged by his frilure to secure more munievon-s converts. This determination and courage in fa‘-e of successive defeats undoubtedly won for the leader the admiration and respect even of those who opposed him. . . . But the greater proof of Mr Holland's sincerity wag given when his party at 1-st began to win greater support. There was the temptation then to accelerate the movement, by toning down the party programme, by" presenting aid advanced Liberalism to win over the w'avcirers.” Whether for good or .for ill, it was Mr Holland who stayed the (compact. Just what would have happened after the general election of 1928 had Mr Holland, with his battalion of twentyfonv Labourites, declined to give support to Sir Joseph Wand with hi- s twenty-six Liberal-Uuiteds in a House of seventy-six Europjsans,. is beyond conjecture in view of a lapse of five years. It is on record, however, that on this occasion 263.000 odd votes were cast, far Reform, 237,000 for Liberals, 194.000 for Labour, and 25,000 for ■lndependents. From what subsequently occurred i i remains - plain enough that Air Holland and his colleagues made no pact wtih Sir Joseph Ward, and that when Sir Joseph withdrew from the leadership were free to discontinue their association with the United-Liber-als, who ultimately found themselves at the general election of 1931 numerically behind both Reform and Labour.

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Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1933, Page 6

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WELLINGTON TOPICS Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1933, Page 6

WELLINGTON TOPICS Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1933, Page 6

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