SIR JOHN FINDLAY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10463, 30 October 1911, Page 5

SIR JOHN FINDLAY.

FAREWELLED BY THE COUNCIL.

AN INTERESTING GOOD-BYE

By Tdearavh—tress Association,

WELINGTON,- Last Night,

While waiting 'for the Appropriation Bill to be sent to the Council last evening, the Hon. Mr Jenkinson moved that the Council place on rrecord its appreciation of the services rendered to the Council .by the Attor-ney-General (Sir John Findlay) in 1 is position of Leader of the Council. The mover expressed his appreciation of the good work done by the AttorneyGeneral, and his Ibelief that tie would continue to forward humamtarviu measures for the good of the Don rion.

The Hon. It. A. Loughnan ed the motion, and spoke in eulogistic terms of Sir John Findlay.' The Hons. Beeihan, Samuel, Sinclair, Anstey, Rigg and others «?n-! dorsed and added to what had been said by the mover, and the r.iotioa was carried with applause.

Sir John Findlay, in feeling terms, acknowledged the great compliment paid him. That night, he said, l>.e approached a Very important stage of his life, and he left his friends in the Council with a. sense of deep "ogret on his part. He spoke :n highly complimentary terms vof the good work which the Council had done, and he pointed to the fact that measures had, within five years* tw r. radically altered by the Council," with advantage,, and the alterations the House had accepted. The oensuie which had been levelled against the Council had been the result of ignorance. While admittingthe vaii/e of the Council as a revising Chamber, it was, he said, impossible to overlook the spirit of the time, and that a democracy would insist uion having some direct contact between the. Vpper House and the peopie. He thought there would come to be a Chamber having some electi7e clement in it. He, however, objected to a purely elective revising Chamber.