MINISTER’S DEATH
DRAMATIC SUDDENNESS. 1 HON. H. E. PRATTEN PASSES. ASSEAIBLAGE AT AIEETING STUNNED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copkright). Received Alay 8, 9.45 a.m. SYDNEY, May 8. Hon. H. E. Pratten, Aflnister of Trade and Customs in the Federal Government, collapsed whilst addressing a women’s meeting at Turramurra, a suburb of Sydney on the Nortli Shore railway line. His last words were: “I wonder what view the historian a hundred years hence will take of the politicians of to-day.” Air Pratten fell, momentarily revived, and then died within five minutes.
Tho audience was stunned. It was Air Pratten’s sixty-third birthday. The women had a huge cake, on which were sixty-three lighted candles, to presnt to the Alinister after the gathering. The widow and son were among the audience.
Air Pratten had had a long political and public career, and was a former Senator. Recently he visited New Zealand and discussed with the Dominion Government matters relative to trading between tho Commonwealth and New Zealand.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1928, Page 7
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164MINISTER’S DEATH Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1928, Page 7
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