SIR JAMES CARROLL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7849, 11 July 1911, Page 4

SIR JAMES CARROLL

GOW THEY TOOK IT AT HOME! Amongst the thousands of cougratnlar lory messages received by the Act.ing-rre-niior, none is more treasured than that conveyed In the homely references of the “Wairoa Guardian,” published and circa hi ted in the locality where Sir James Carroll was born. It roads as follows: "Wo join with the rest of the population of Wairoa and the surrounding districts m offering our congratulations to oir James Carroll, the Natise Minister and Acting-Premier of the Dominion, and our member for many years. We believe that wo are right in saying that Sir James Carroll wall look upon the King’® mark of favour as one bcst-cwod upon the race from which the recipient sprung. At the same time the European side has been honoured, for the sire of Sir James was one of the very first, if not the first white settlor in Wairoa-, and in honouring our member distinction has also been conferred on our district and its people. As the congratulatory telegrams pour in from every hand Sir James Carroll might well fee-I proud, hut we rather think he will look at the honour as we have suggested, ami cast his mind back to the little spot under the historic cabbage tree on the bankn of the Wairoa river where he first snfw the light. His mother's people then wore on*.y just emerging from barbarism, and to-day, though hot so numerous, they arc sufficiently enlightened, to stand on a common platform, able to join in acclaiming a common King and a son of the soil “whom the King dolighteth to honour.' 5