IN MEMORIAM.
SIR JOHN HALL. He sleeps. Our doughty champion and our knight ' ' y._ ' Sleeps soundly, but his noble life :». 'work stands; ' . . He toiled- for aH from dawn ..of life, till night.. : And placed a mighty weapon m our hands. ; 0 women of New Zealand, friends were tow ' When this brave "heart, now lying cold and still, # Believed i*v you and, fighting, gained for you ' . . A power you must use for good pr ill. Let deeds not words then our memorial be, To justify his faith in womanhood,— Stand forth boldly, strong in unity, *Sisters, and labor fpr the common good. '> So shall his mem'ry eyeir verdant he. If women to their beftter selves be 1 just — ' Not we alone but .all, Humanity , , :. Will be the richer fore h;s life and . "'■' trust. ' * ' .-... . ■■ —Emily Gibson, in Atfcklsjud Ster, .
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Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 319, 17 July 1907, Page 5
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