SIR WM. LYNE DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 184, 4 August 1913, Page 5

SIR WM. LYNE DEAD.

A POPULAR POLITICIAN. , (Kcccived 0.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, thin day. ; The dcnth occurred to-day of Sir Win. ] Lytic, at the ago of (50 year.-*. Tho "Telegraph ,, enya that "Sir William Lyno'.n death removes one? of' the most Rtrcnuoux workers and most popular personalities for whom politics ever provided n. career. It was only men of linflajrjjinp; energy and wide, human sympathy, together with that peculiar capacity'of anticipating what the majority of people would think tomorrow which . rnakc.-i tho practic.il politician, to whom ' it is given (<> mirvlve tlio storrdand iirew of such a number of years as Sir William Lync loomed prominently in thn public eve. At the end of his political career he v.Tis a poorer man than at thn beginning. Men of bin type never enrich themselves by politics." | .Sir William Lynn has for majiy years been one of tho most prominent ( personalities in Australian public life. ( Boni in Tasmania newly (IS years ago ho had political Wooil in his veins fron h:rf youth, for hid father took an interest ( iv public affaire, and was for a time a member of the Parliament of whut is now thn island State, fa a young man, William Lync engaged in tanning pursuits. Hn TV cut in for politics when re;,iding in thn Ilivcrina., anrl m elected for Hume in tho X.S.W. House of ' Aesnmbly, holding the seat for 21 years, before entering the. Federal Parliament. Sir William km n strong Protectionist, and soon made, his way to the front ■rank of State, politics. In the. Dibbs Ministry of ISS. - !, formed lepn than five years after Mβ entry to Parliament, lie v:nn given the portfolio of Minister foi- 3 Public: Worh/i, which ho held for about eighteen montho. Then he was out of oilice for v couple of yearn, He then iccamr ?,lil)i;-ter for Lands in the DibWi Ministry of 18SD, which position, however, he only filled for a couple of £• niontiw. In 'l8!)l lie went back to the I Oe.partme.nt of Works us Minister, i spcndlnft several ycam there, until the t :U>iil d'overnnient came into oflico, n when he become Leader of the Oppo.«i- v> t.ion, and hud a cold, weary wait of five yearn for the .political wheel of fortune ii to turn a/rain, which it <lid in September, d isna. When Mr. (i. H. Reid'* admini.v c tn\tion wnii defeated on the question of paying a voln to Colonel Xeild for expeiiMv; in the collecting nbroad of old ap<> pension stn-tititics, Sir WilUoDl Lync came into power, with the support of the Labour party .accorded to him on condition that he pn-'/sed certain bllle, including tin . Old Ago Pensions' and Early Closing Dills. When Federation became an ratftbUshed fact in lt)00, the flmt Govornor-Ooneral, Ijonl Ifopetoim, invited .Sir William Lyne. a% Premier of (he oldest SUt«, to form the llmt Administration, of the Commonwealth. " After rt]iending some days, however, in " the task, he fnilrcl to do ho, tho leading ° men of the- day refusing to join him be- " cause of hiri provioue hostility to the P Federal movement, and hecaueo they regardod Mr. ISdmuud BurXon ,ih lravbis a better clnhn, Uvoiltually Mr. formed the Ministry, Including .Mr. Lyne- as Minister fnr Homo Affaire, - which position he occupied during the f< life of the Administration. 11.. wan v created a Knight Commander of the n Order of St. Michael and St. tl (X.C.M.0.) in l<lo.l. .Since Federation, Sir William, whether in power or in opposition hafl been continually in tJ»n fore-front of Australian polities. Aα Minister for Custonw, rui Acting Minister for Defeniie, :m Comnionwe.aTf.h Treusuror, and as Minister for Home Affairs ho baa prciided over most important do- ( ' p.artments of the. Government of tiio f" Federation. ai

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