ROYAL RECOGNITION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 February 1921, Page 8

ROYAL RECOGNITION

HQNOUR FOR MR. WILL CROOKS

**• CABIT -F*?]SS WSnWTiOTST-COPYHIGHT (Reuter Service.) Received Feb. 14, 8.45 a.m ™, 0 ' *.'•. . LONDON, Feb.' 12. Ihe King, in a letter to Mr. Will brooks pressed sympathy with him in his illness and regretted his retirement from Parliament." Further evidence of Mr. Crooks' popularity is shown by an appeal, headed by Messrs Balfour, Asquith, and Lloyd George, to provide a fund to endow him during his declinning years