UNBLEMISHED RECORD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 May 1925, Page 9

UNBLEMISHED RECORD.

STERLING PUBLIC SERVICE. A SYDNEY NEWSPAPER’S COMMENT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received May 11, 12.45 p.m. SYDNEY, May 11. The Sydney Morning Herald, jn a leader on Mr Massey, says: “By the passing of Mr Massey the Dominion wherein he has spent the most of his life loses one- of its most honoured citizens and the Empire a devoted son. . Rugged plainness, integrity, and directness were the outstanding qualities in this sterling farmer, who established for .himself and his party an authority which seemed impregnable. It was an instructive achievement which will be long memorable, for the career of Mr Massey, if reflecting anything at all, is an annihilating answer to those tricky-minded people With a demoralising gospel that wiliness and artifice are the soundest passports to public confidence. From the day he entered Parliament until he died no suspicion of betrayal of public interest was ever attached to his name. Ho leaves an unblemished record, that of a plain, simple man, seeing his duty clearly and doing it fearlessly. In what more vital way could the theory of government common to the British Dominions be justified.”