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A GOOD RECORD

MR. LEONARD STOWE. While waiting for the receipt of the final act of the session, the Legislative Council took some few minutes oft yesterday to do honour to one who has set under the Speaker's Chair as Clerk of the Council for half a century. , The occasion was interesting. It was the end of the first session in which a National Government had ruled the Dominion, and it was, to a day, the end of a . period of fifty years during which Mr. Leonard 'Stowe, C.M.G., has occupied the honourable and important position of Clerk to that branch of the Legislature. It was only fitting that the oldest member of | the Council should bring the matter ■ before the Council, and the Hon. W. I D. H. Baillie, who remembers Mr. Stowe when he was quite a boy, introj dnced the subject to the notice of councillors. Going back into " the early days," he made reference to the fact that Mr. Stowe was " Provincial Clerk to myself as Acting Speaker and Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough" move than fifty years ago, and, from the depths of his recollections, he spoke earnestly about the sincere and helpful friend that Mr. Stowe had been to generations of Councillors. The Hon. W. C. F. Carncross, Sir Francis Bell (Leader of the Council), the Honourable the Speaker (Hon. C. J. Johnston), and other Councillors added their tribute to those made by Colonel Baillie, and all testified to the fact that during the whole of his official career Mr. Stowe had endeavoured to give to those who required it the benefit of his experience and technical knowledge, and on all sides the hope was expressed that he would for many years 6e spared to occupy the position. Mr. Stowe (the Standing Orders being suspended) addressed the Council in reply. His record of service, he said, was one of which any man might reasonably be proud, and he desired to express appreciation of the courteous consideration that had invariably been extended to him. The following motion was carried unanimously : — "The Council, on this fiftieth anniversary of the appointment of Mr. Leonard Stowe, C.M.G., to the office of Clerk to the Council, resolves to record in its journals of the day's proceedings its sense of the ability, industry, and unfailing courtesy which have distinguished him in the performance of the duties of his office ; and the unanimous hope of all the present members that he may for many years still to come continue at the table of the Council his honourable and useful service to tlie pubjic^'

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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 89, 13 October 1915, Page 2

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A GOOD RECORD Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 89, 13 October 1915, Page 2

A GOOD RECORD Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 89, 13 October 1915, Page 2