SIR JOHN FINDLAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 30 October 1911, Page 8

SIR JOHN FINDLAY.

FA2EWELLED BY THE UPPER HOUSE. By Telegraph—Press Association, Wellington, Last Night. Tn the Council in the evening, while while waiting for the Appropriation Bill to be sent to the Council, Hon. Jenkinson moved that the Council place on record its appreciation of the services rendered to Hie Council by the AttorneyGeneral, Sir John Findlay, in his position of loader of'the Council The mover expressed appreciation of the good work done by the Attorney-General, and his belief that, he would continue to forward humanitarian measures for the good of the Dominion.

Hon. Longlman seconded the motion, and spoke in eulogistic terms of Sir John Find la v.

lions. lieohan, Samuel, Sinclair, Anstey, Rigg and others endorsed, and added to what had been said by the mover. ■

The motion was carried with applause. Sir John Findlay, in feeling terms, acknowledged the great compliment paid him. He that night approached a very important stage of his life, and he left his friends in the Council with a sense of deep regret on his part. He spoke in highly complimentary terms of the good work which the Council had done, and he pointed to the fact that thirtysix measures had within five years been radically altered by the Council with advantage, and which alterations the House had accepted. The censure which had been levelled against the Council had been the result of ignorance. While admitting the value of the Council as a revising Chamber, it was impossible to overlook the spirit of the time, and that a democracy would insist upon having some direct contact between the Upper House and the people. He thought there would come to be a chamber having some elective element in it. He, how" ever, objected to a purely elective revising chamber.

In the Chamber in the evening the amendment made in the Native Land Claims Adjustment Bill was agreed to.