EDUCATION BOARD'S REGRET.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 20 May 1925, Page 7

EDUCATION BOARD'S REGRET.

1 lie following motion was passed in silence at to-day's meeting of the Wellington Education Board :—"That the Wellington Education Board express its heartfelt sympathy with Mrs. Massey and .family in their great loss. That in placing on record its deep regret in the Joss which this Dominion sustains tiirough the death of its late honoured Prime Minister, the board also expresses its grateful sense of the splendid contribution of civic and national service embraced within thn compass of one life. His life furnishes a pre-eminent example of. the triumph of character over circumstances. His success- teas won by the exercise of those time-worn, but golden qualities, of uutirmg'industry, clean living add thinking, honesty, pertinacity of purpose, cournoe love of home, fervent patriotism with a growing vision of Empire, in which Now Zealand should by her worth win a place of honour He laboured to bring, into being his .deal of a highly educated democracy whose powers of body and miud -should, through development of the natural resources of the country, find full profitable, and varied employment. It was the exercise of the qualities mentioned above which won him the respect. <>\ his fellow settlers, that also assured .him success in the field of politics and statesmanship until to him could justly bo applied the saying o f the wise man, ..east tlice a man diligent in his business; he shall stand bdfoi'o kings." 1 A Jr. T. Forsyth said education had made great strides under the late Prime ■Minister. He had always been sympathetic and kindly in his attention to education, and it was due to him that they vevc getting the new school at Mount Cook.

Before making his reply to the welcome extended by the Mayor (Mr. C. B. Norwood) to the Sydney University Rugby football tsam yesterday. Mr. T!."O. Martin, manager of the (cam. exprcssi-d regret and sorrow at the loss the Dominion hud sustained in the death of the i'nmc Minister, the -Right Hon. W. F. iMassoy. --AYe do renli.se that he was one of tho great statesmen of the M--.rld " Mr. Martin added.

MEMORIAL'TO MR. MASSES.

(BY TEtEGKArn.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

AUCKLAND. 19th May. The City Council ,to-night decided to tall a public meeting to inaugurate a national campaign for funds to" erect a monument over Mr. Massev"s "rave -it l Joint Halswcll, Wellington °

A correspondent ("Norlhlander") •writes to "The Post" 'inquiring what was doiie after Mr. Seddou died" in tht ■way of providing a .-memorial. The- position is that a monument was erected over Mr. Soddon's grave- in tile Bolton Street Cemetery, the cost h"iii" defvayed from flic Consolidated Fund" A stattie of Mr. Se.ddon was also placed in thft Parliajnontarv Grounds, but the funds fer this were contributed by mem-Lsrs-of tho Liberal Party and public.