PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10298, 29 July 1911, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE'S. By Tekaravili—Fress Association. "VYELIJNGTON, Lad N-ght. The House of Representatives met at 2.30 p.m. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. Fourteen days' leave of absence •Avas granted to Mr Heaiton Rhodes. FIRST READINGS. Government Bills as f:llo-»vs were a-ead a first timie:— Town Planning, Pharmacy Amendm-emit., Friendly AmendJment, Shipping and Seamen Amendment-, Industrial Conciliation, and Arbitration, Workers' Com peaisationi Amendment, Admindstration Amendment. The Gaming Amendment Bill (Mr Jennings) and Hereditary Titles Prevention Bill (Mr Newman.) were also read a first time.

IMPREST SUPPLY BILL. Prior to the. House' going into Committee of Supply for the discussioni of the Imprest Bill, Mr Massey aisked' that as little diseusEton as possible take place on. the. Bill, to enable the. House to honour tike memory of a deceased member. Sir James Carroll stated that he (had intended <to move in this direction!. He agreed that ft he dfecussion should be limited. The leaders on both sides had been consulted. The Imprest Supply Bill, amounting to £721,400, was then, passed through all its stages, without discussion. f

THE LATE MR TAYLOR. §i-r James Carroll then, referred to •the "death -of Mr T E- Taylor, who, since the House last met, had been gathered to the fold'. vHe characterised the deceased politician as a strong, fearless man, whose loss would be keenly felt by the country. He lrad extraordinary powers, and soared to the highest. He' was a genius. He was on ttJie rising tide to claim public favour, when he> was taken away. Mr Taylor's untimely disappearance from the House had closed a usefulness of which, the country might have had the advaivtage; for his usefulness as a pubdiio man was becoming more apparent every day. This country had lost a powerful miiud, a strong, vigorous spirit of tireless energy, aintd a great champion; of the democracy. Words failed to describe. tie deceased's qualities, fittingly. He moved, ''That this House place on. record its hiighi sense of appreciation - of th© eervioes rendered the Legislature ,by the late Mr T. E. .Taylor, and extend to M© widow and family ite assuranjps of its sympathy for ithem in their ibe-reave-roent." ,•

Mr W. F. Mas&ey, in seconding the motion', wished to express Ms sincere sympathy with the wsdbw amdi family of the deceased. Though many had differed with the honourable gentleman, all were ready to honour the memory of Mm wham no one could say did not possess miany good and remarkable qualiities. He had few equalis on .the plaitformj and no equals, tas far as .this country was concerned, as a member. No member who had ever sat in the New Zealand Parliament "would ever forget Mr T. E. Taylor. N

The Hon: G. Fowlds said ifoaifc today iNtew Zealand, Mourned the loss of one of the greatest. poKitdci-ana ever 'seen* dm the Domiouion. Ma- Taylor iwas wH/thoiUit doubt the greatest speaker he had ever heard in Parliament or on the platform in New Zealand, £te had heard most of the great speakers of "the Old Land, and, he placed Mr lUylor second to none Tlie position New Zealand occupied in itlite temperance' movement was mainly d!ue to Mir Taylor and a few other® associated , with ihSm in the earliea- (periods of the movement. Sincie the f ,Hop..,Mr Seddon dsß3, : great ant. upon the jmblic. ias tlie death. of. Mr Taylor. Those who had not seem Mr. Taylor fax the bosom. of. has family had ".inotfiseeni" "The Gonl Di feuddo what had been said, -there i-emained viery little for him to add.' He had been associated wiiith Mr Taylor for many years, and >wias always impressed wriith ttlhe way he stood up for what lie (believed to Ibe right. He wias, perhaps, seen at his- ibesifc when in tlie minority, was alwavs unselfish and lioi/est in all hiiis v.rrk for the public good. r Several other members eulogised the deceased as a politician and a iman:, aaid expressed sympathy with' Ihis family. The House adjourned at 3.45 p.m. until 7.30 p.an. on, Tuesday.