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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8136, 16 June 1906, Page 3

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Sydney, June 15. The Labor Council passed a minute recording their sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr Seddon. The minute states that the laws he placed on the statute book should form au imperishable monument to one of the greatest leaders democracy had ever known.

The Council of the Prohibition party sent a message of condolence to Mrs Seddon.

THE FINAL RESTING PLACE. WISHES OP WESTLAND FRIENDS. PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION. Hokitika, June 15. The Chairman or the Westland County Council sent the following wire to the Hon. Hall-Jones this evening: Subject to the wishes of Mrs Seddon and family, and the fitness of tilings from the colonial standpoint, I am desired by a large number of personal friends of our revered Member to make a formal request that his remains be interred in Westland, the district which gave him political birth, and •vhich by its loyalty returned him to Parliament throughout his great career. May 1 add that the Right Hon. gentleman on innumerable occasions referred to .Hie debt of gratitude he owed the district for its unswerving support, and that he always said, often as he was invited to contest constituencies elsewhere, that only death itself would break the tie between himself and the people of Westland. Death, alas, has claimed him, and it would be some consolation to his mourning friends if the final resting place could be fixed in his beloved Westland. May I further add that great statesmen are frequently buried in their own districts, and colonial precedents follow this. Granting the request would be comforting to his thousands of West Coast friends, who would wish to pay the fullest respects t> the comrade of a lifetime's intercourse. I would thank you to kindly convey this request to Mrs Seddon and family.