LATE SIR Wm. HERRIES.
SIR JAS. CARROLL’S TRIBUTE. Gisborne, Last Night. Touching on the death of Sir Wm. Hemes, Sir James Carroll, said: “I have lost one of my dearest friends. Politically, we were opposed to each other, but our political differences were always on a high plane, the ai’gument leaving the issue always to be settled by a majority decision. In politics, Sir Wm. Herries was a man who always played the game and never hit below the belt. Of a kindly temperament, he was a strong party man, with a keen conception of the balance of light and wrong. He was a sport in a deeper and wider sense of the term than is associated with most people. I have lost a good Triend, the Maoris have lost a good friend, so have the sports, so have all reasonably minded men. Peace to his ashes!”
MR. WJLFORD’S TRIBUTE.
Wanganui, Yesterday. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr T. M. Wilford, referring to the death of Sir W. 11. Herries, said he was the Erskine May of the New Zealand Parliament. His mind, like that of Seddon, was card-indexed wth the Standing Orders of Parliament and like Seddon, he became the greatest authority of his time on the Standing Orders. “We, the members of the Liberal-Labour Party, regret sincerely the death of cue of the kindliest of souls. I have been twenty-three years in Parliament with the late Sir William and I never, during that time, remember him losing his temper or creating a scene. His smile disarmed anger, and his very temperament induced tranquility.- In the National Government, his broad Imperialism and wise counsel" helped to smooth out many a. wrinkle during the war period. As a sportsman he was known throughout New Zealand. He loved racing for the sport’s sake, and he wrote a book on the thoroughbred in recent years, which gave evidence of his wide knowledge and exhaustive research. As a Parliamentary tactician he was second to none in the House of Representatives. May lin conclusion, describe him as one of the ‘whitest’ men I have ever known.”
The Prime Minister has received messages of sincese regret from all parts of the Dominion. His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, Viscount Jellicoe, telegraphed as follows: — “Her Excellency and I are deeply grieved to hear of the death of Sir William Herries. In him New Zealand loses a personality and one whose services to the Dominion have been of immense value. We can well appreciate your personal sorrow and we tender to you our most sincere sympathy. —(Signed) Jellicoe.”
A NATIONAL LOSS
Mr Massey, in paying a. tribute to
his deceased colleague said: “For over a quarter of a century Sir William Herries and I have been closely associated in connection with the politics of the country, and I can say this: that no one could have had a better friend or a more loyal comrade. A man of sound judgment, absolutely straight and reliable in all his dealings, generous to a—fault, _ disdaining everything small or mean, he was without exception the noblest man I have ever met. As Shakespeare says:
His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to 9.11 the world : This is a Man. “His place in the councils of the nation will be very hard to fill. Popular and respected even by his opponents, he was loved by bis fel-low-Ministers and those with whom be worked. Lately failing 1 health prevented him taking that active part in public affairs to which be bad been accustomed, but his interest both in Empire matters and the politics .of his own country continued to the last. During his illness he never murmured or complained, and his last words in answer to a question were, ‘I am all right.’ His last duty was at the opening of Parliament—taking the oath of allegiance to his Sovereign and in that connection those who knew him as I did know that there was 'no more loyal subject of the King or a citizen of the Empire than the statesman who has just passed away, and whose loss we mourn, but whose memory will be cherished by a very wide circle of friends, both iu the Parliament of the country and outside of it.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2547, 24 February 1923, Page 3
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720LATE SIR Wm. HERRIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2547, 24 February 1923, Page 3
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