SIR SIDNEY HOLLAND

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28539, 19 March 1958, Page 12

SIR SIDNEY HOLLAND

Electorate Pays Tributes One hundred and twenty member! of Fendalton National Party branch committee! last evening paid, tribute to Sir Sidney Holland who represented the electorate in Parliament for 22 yean. Sir Sidney Holland, who was making his first public appearance in many month, after a long illness, and Lady Holland, were presented with a, canteen of cutlery. The former Prime Miniiter appeared fit and stood for 25 minutes responding to speeches in his honour by the present member for Fendalton and former Minister of Finance (Mr J. T. Watts),- the electorate chairman (Mr H. Cordery) and other electors. “Worked tee Hard”

“In a country such as ours we work our Prime Ministers too hard and expect too much from them.” said Mr Watts. “We should be eternally grateful that we have men and women like Sir Sidney and Lady Holland. They have given up their private interests and a great deal of their home and family life, and devoted themselves to their fellow humans.”

Mr Cordery made the presentation to Sir Sidney Holland and Lady Holland as “a token of our affection and best wishes for retirement.”

Mrs F. E. Burrell presented Lady Holland with a bouquet and Mr H. M. Bannehr spoke on behalf of early supporters of Sir Sidney Holland.

Responding, Sir Sidney Holland said his uppermost feelings were those of the deepest gratitude to members of the party who were honouring him. However, his service to the electorate would have been impossible without members’ loyal devotion to the cause.

Referring to a remark by Mr Watts who had said that although there had been many differences of opinion in the National Government there had never been any acrimony, Sir Sidney Holland remarked that "that was the nicest thing that could have been said."

“We never had a barney, did we. Jack?" he said.

“I always had my way," he explained to his audience.