LABOUR LEADER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 236, 5 October 1937, Page 10

LABOUR LEADER.

HOLLAND MEMORIAL.

UNVEILING ON SATURDAY.

SYMBOL OF HIGH IDEALS. The national memorial to the former leader of the New Zealand Labour party, Mr. 11. E. Holland, M.P., is to beiinveiled in the Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington, on Saturday afternoon by the Prime Minister, the Kt. Hon. M. J. Savage. Friday is the fourth anniversary of Mr. Holland's death. It is expected that the ceremony will be attended by a large gathering, including representatives of the Labour movement in many parts of the country.

Among those present will be the widow, Mrs. Holland, who arrived on the Aorangi from Australia yesterday, and other members of the family—Mr. Fred Holland, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Holland, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Holland. Members of the natiqnal executive of the Labour party will be present from all over New Zealand, and others attending will be Cabinet Ministers, members of the Maori Advisory Council, and a special contingent from the Waikato Maoris headed by Princess Te Puea Herangi, members of Parliament, and representatives of industrial unions and Labour party branches all over the country. Special significance attaches to the Waikato Maori party, for it was the Maoris from this district who brought Mr. Holland's hotly to Wellington following his death. The memorial, which was raised by public subscription, is the work of the Auckland sculptor Mr. R. O. Gross, A.H.B.S. It comprises a group of three figures, the two lower figures representing the emergence of workers from serfdom. They are looking up to the figure which surmounts the pedestal. This figure represents modern youth with the flowers of the field in one hand and the fruits of the field in the other. His head is upturned, the idea being that he is looking upwards to the accomplishment of even higher things than have yet been achieved in the Labour movement. In brief the memorial depicts the strivings of the human race to achieve higher and nobler things and is symbolical of the ideals that inspired the late Mr. Holland.

The unveiling ceremony will be preceded by addresses, by Mr. James Roberts, national president of the New Zealand Labour party; the Hon. P. C. Webb, representing the Buller electorate; Princess Te Pnea Herangi, representing the Waikato Maoris; and Mr. A. McLagan, national president of the New Zealand Federation of Labour.

To facilitate the attendance of people from all parts of the Dominion, arrangements have been made for a 20 per cent reduction on all railway fares and on steamer fares between' Lyttelton and Wellington and Picton and Wellington.