APPRECIATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 28 April 1910, Page 5

APPRECIATION.

>♦■ A PURSE OF SOVEREIGNS. [press association.] f (Received April 28, 8.30 a.m.) t X OTTAWA, April 27. a The members of the Canadian Senate T and House of Commons presented the . Hon. W. S. Fielding, Minister for Finance, with a purse containing £24,000 in recognition of his services to Can- ' ada. j The Hon. William Stevens Fielding, J LL.D., was. born in Halifax, Nova a Scotia, in 1848. He was for 20 years 1 connected with the Halifax Morning i Chronicle, of which he was managing a editor, which position he relinquished i in order to engage in the active duties s of public life. As Minister of Finance A he was particularly charged with the ( readjustment of the Canadian tanft ; he f submitted to Parliament the British preferential tariff, and later the measures imposing a surtax on the products J of Germany in consequence of German t action adverse to Canada; and later i legislation, dealing with the so-called I "dumping" system. He was a repre- B sentativo of Canada at the Colonial £ Conference in London in 1902 ; one of l His Majesty's plenipotentiaries for the j negotiation of the Franco-Canadian Commercial Treaty, Paris 1907. He is * a Governor of Dalhousie University.