THE CITIZENS’ RESOLUTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 13 August 1915, Page 5

THE CITIZENS’ RESOLUTION.

B*for# commencing titer farewell sons] tendered to members of the Bth Reinforcement* at the Kgmout Club i last night, mention wa« made to the toss Taranaki, and New Zealand as a whale, had sustained in the death •f Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Malone. Mr J. Masters said it was his mournful duty to move a motion of sympathy in connection with the death •f. Lieutenant-Colonel Malone. He said some bad known Mr, Malone for ▼ears, and many had known him tbeugh bus practicing as a solicitor before the war was thought of, hut all wh© knew him knew a great man. 'Hu, last word he (the speaker) had with the late Mr Malone was in his tent at the Palmerston Camp, when he had a long talk principally about soldiering and war. Mr Malone said h« liked soldiering and war best, then tame farming, and last of all law, which he did not like at all. Mr Masters said he spoke to some of the &©ys under Colonel Malone and all he eonld say was that the boys loved their commanding officer. Mr Masters said Mr Malone left the best practice in the town, left his home, aed left his famiily to fight for his country and the British nation. He hoped the example set by Mr Malone would, under the present circum•lances, induce all eligible young men 1* enlist. The young men he hoped weald »H take part in the war and M bring it to a speedy conclusion. Concluding. Mr Masters said he was very sorry that he had to move the following resolution:—“That those present- extend their heartfelt sympathy to the Widow and Family rtf the late Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Malone, who was killed whilst fighting for iw the people he loved so well and to assure them that we feel that w» and the Boys he so gallantly led have lost a guide, counsellor, and friend, that his place will be hard to fill, and that he died a Soldier and a Man.” ‘ Mr Sole, in seconding the motion, said he had known Lieutenant-Col-enel Malone for 30 years—probably longer than any one else in the room. •The dead officer was a personal friend ®f his, and all he could, say was that he was “a great bit of stuff.” Mr Malone continually had his, “hand in his pocket,” and would see not any person in distress ifi -he could help him out. In the old,, cli>ys he always headed everything -that ,was do-i ing in the town. LieuteUantrColonel Malone died a grent-ipjnn. i He went, to fight for those whp i cowls! not go, and to protect them propertyi if> lb was men like him who-made: the •British Empire what iit-is ’‘to-day.’* hr . The motion was pasfced in'pilence, all present standing/' r ; i-t. * (•

a. lii"} >1 1>» tii' At the meeting of ; the MaketawaDairy Company yesterday, the chairman (Mr J. Brown) referred to the death in action of Colonel W. G. Malone, and remarked that another of Taranaki’s best men had gone. It was one of the fortunes, of (but they all regretted tti& 1 excellent soldier andysernng man 1 . 1 A resident of tho"Hawera district,' 1 who was with the late* Colonel';Malone in the Armed Conslajmlary, 'told,' ;V Star representative f joined in • 1879, and were bound lo sjerve for three years. Colonel' ‘ Malone was, even in those days, linown .as a daring soldier, who was always, ready to en- . , r.<C V(age in any enterprise demanding prompt and bold action.’.'He was one of about a hundred riyen .selected to go into the camp of the rebel Maoris I and bring out Te Whiti and Tohu. They had to search all the whares, and the risk of the movement may be con- ' reived when it is realised that the Maoris numbered some thousands, most of whom were armed . Had they chosen, they could have prevented any one of the little band coming out alive.