Michael Joseph Savage
afternoon at Bastion Point, . Auckland, will be the last of the formal steps taken by the Government to honour Michael Joseph Savage; or perhaps we should say the last of the prearranged steps. It was announced when he died that his: life would be commemorated in this fashion when the necessary preparations could be completed; and now they have been completed. A ‘column has been raised to his memory on a spot that will be for ever associated with his life and work; sixteen acres of the surrounding land have been dedicated, not in empty solemnity to his name, but to the use and enjoyment of the people he served; and in the centre of it, for all time, if we guard our country and prove worthy of it, flowers. will bloom every day. Officially there is nothing more to do; nothing more that it would be helpful to do. He is dead, dead three years, and there is a point beyond which formal remembrance should not be carried. But we say formal for the plainest of reasons. Other memorials may, and will, be unveiled before time obliterates what he did for New Zealand; as time some day must. But no one living will see that day, Tate ceremony on Sunday
which will not come this century or next. And in the meantime he is being honoured all over the world wherever governments are working to £emove social insecurity from their people. The Beveridge Report is a monument; monuments are being erected in Australia and Canada, and prepared in the United States. It is impossible to introduce any scheme of national or social insurance, to erect any defence against poverty, sickness, and age without honouring the statesman who first erected a successful defence in our own country. For although social security goes back hundreds of years, New Zealand was the first country to gather up the lessons of all those years into a plan that really worked; and New Zealand’s leader when that great step was taken was Michael Joseph Savage. In that garden of memories his fame is secure. \
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 196, 26 March 1943, Page 3
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