THE MAN ON THE SPOT.

Evening Star, Issue 13002, 22 December 1906, Page 7

THE MAN ON THE SPOT.

HU Excellency the Governor (says i Adelaide ‘Observer’), in the ceremony < unveiling the statue of Colonel Light. ji:;c one'of the best speeches be has dcJiv-r ' in the State. In the coarse of his rem:a' . Sir George specially referred to the opposition the founder of Adelaide bad to contend with in connection with the selection of the site for the city. His Excellency said it w:ts an unfort-inaio thing that lie was not loft t6 carry ont his scheme in its entirety,' unhampered by interfere non on the part of others and of the Home authorities. “ Again here was an example of a lesson that England has never learnt, and 1 don’t know that she ever will learn ji. although I hope Australia wiU—that ui interfere with tho man on the spot is a most fatal blunder. What we have lost of the Empire, and what we have spent in recovering and holding it, have always been dne, as the reading of history proves, to failure to trust the man on the spot. Colonel Light, above ail, was a man to be trusted, and ho should never .have been interfered with. It was an unfortunate moment when be decided to send Mr Kingston to England about the surveys. He cam- back with instructions that the ear-- , veys were to be done in a, particular way, j and that if Light did not approve of it Mr / Kingston was to supersede him. It killed- 1 Colonel laght-v-rfA,Jsaneer>. it » 4dlled i hbß?£l ~' * '*•'