STATE FUNERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 May 1925, Page 5

STATE FUNERAL.

MR MASSEY’S LAST RESTING PLACE.;

AUCKLAND, May 10

It is proposed that Mr Massey should] be given a State funeral in Wellington] and that his last resting place should be in the centre of New Zealand, near the place of Government, which, lie has directed for thirteen years, and near Parliament House,, in which he has served for 31 years, is considered due and fitting by his colleagues. Point Halswell leaps to the imagination as the burial place of a New Zealand statesman. It is a bold point jutting into Port Nicholson, and thus it looks on the open sea as well as upon the city. Any monument erected there will be always before the eyes of the people in the capital and will be the first to catch the eyes of men on ships arriving and departing. The dedication of hill*tops as the resting place of great men has several precedents. Sir John Logan Campbell is buried at the summit of One Tree Hill, Cecil Rhodes in the Matoppo Hills of Rhodesia, and Robert Louis Steven'son on Vaea Mount, Samoa. Richard John Seddon lies in a grave on a prominence overlooking Parliament House and Lambton Quay, Wellington.