KIA ORA TO YOU DAD.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 268, 1 November 1911, Page 4

KIA ORA TO YOU DAD.

Now flint hi:; poliiieal life lias; ended .Mi. Alt Dillon has nothing but happy recollect ions of the House and t hemen he met there. 'Why should a man not. be the besl of friends with, those whose- political opinions differ from his,” lie said yesterday, and added. "Very few men have- left the House in a kinder wav than I have e.xpei icnccd. Mv chief (the Premier) ami Mr. M:i‘-sey expressed their regret that 1 was leaving and said many kind things that will long linger in my memory. Continuing Mr. Dillon spoke- with deep feeling of the kind treatment and friendly consideration he had always receive d from Sir Will:;t>ii iC.is.-eii. the man ; from whom lie had taken the Hawke s Bay seat. Hr recalled the I incident, at the last election when. | overcome with excitement, he coli lapsed on the night c>f the- second fi.-illot, "Lady Russell." he said, ’"was f’-r- first caller the following mormng Io enquire how 1 was. and my political opponent was the first to congratulate- me and express pleasure that 1 was better.” Mr. Dillon says that no jme can be happy in politics if he allows any feeling to rile but that of friendship and respect for his opponents. Tile man who indulges in personalities has no cliam-e of sni-ce.- s. .Ami now on the i eve of Mr. Dillon'.-; disappearance from tb<- political arena on the anniversary of his 70th birthday, his supporters and political opponents reiterair Sir James Carroll’s c ongratulations :

Life's allotted span and still going strong. Kia ora to you Dad. and inain happy returns of the day.