NEW ZEALANDER ABROAD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20656, 30 August 1930, Page 12

NEW ZEALANDER ABROAD.

POLITICIAN IN CANADA.

MR. BRADY LOSES HIS SEAT. [FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT. 3 VANCOUVER, August 6. On the banks of the Skeena River is a New Zealander who is weighing politics against teaching. Ho is Mr. James C. Brady, who has just lost his scat after serving one term in tho House of Commons in Ottawa.Mr. Brady, who is an NT.A. of Dublin University, came to Canada from New Zealand in 1911. He taught for 28 years in high schools in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and Gibraltar. His parents were both noted Irish educationists. His father was president of the National Teachers' Association and member of the Archaeological Society of Ireland. Mr. Brady married a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Mitchell, of Duncdin. They have two sons and four daughters. Ho resigned his position of principal of the High School at Prince Rupert, British Columbia, to contest the Skeena seat at the 1926 election in the Conservative interest.

Mr. Brady was immensely popular in the House of Commons. When business was dull in tho House, his Liberal opponents would call for "Brady, Brady." His style of delivery is described as "pontifical." Words, ho confessed, were his favourite study. Even in his most critical moods he was never bitter. Always in tho best humonr, he paid compliments to everybody, and was a prime favourite with all parties. " To political correspondents on Parliament Hill," writes ono of them, " the absence of J. C. Brady registers sorrowfully. He was never dull. With a flair for the pointed epigram and the apt simile, ho always enlivened debate."