LABOUR'S LOSS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 79, 3 April 1928, Page 7

LABOUR'S LOSS.

DEATH OF MB. FRUTGLE, M.P. LONDON", April 2. The death Is announced of Mr. W. M. R. Pringle, Labour member of Parliament for the Penistone division of Yorks, from 1922 to 1924. —(A. and N.Z. and Sydney "Sim")

Mr. William Mather Rutherford Pringle, who was born at Berwickshire in 1874, represented the north-west division of Lanarkshire in Parliament, in the Labour interests, from 1910 to 1918. He was educated at Glasgow University, and was a barrister of the Middle Temple. It has been said that Mr. Pringle, as a Parliamentarian, was of a rather different kind. The basis of his undoubted command over the attention of the House was his intimate knowledge of its procedure. His powers of Parliamentaryobstruction were notorious; although it aid not amuse him to employ them against private members. Mr. Pringle's target tvas "the other side," and into that target he shot every shaft of irony, ridicule, interruption and interrogation that his brimming quiver could provide and his bow speed onwards. Probably few historians of the day had a more accurate general knowledge of Britain's political history than the member for Penistone.