NEWSPAPER EULOGIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7865, 29 July 1911, Page 6

NEWSPAPER EULOGIES

APPRECIATION OF THE DECEASED'S WORK. SPECIAL TO THE "TtSIES-” CHRISTCHURCH. July 28Concerning tho late Mr T. E. Taylor the "Press" says editorially:—"A dispassionate review of his career compels us to say that his forte was criticism rather than construction, but there is no doubt •hiit lie discharged a most important and valuable function in keeping politics from stagnation, and in forcing the public to think about reforms, oven though *omo of his ideals, in our judgment, were based on mistaken views or impossible of realisation, Ho supplied a driving force which will bo very much missed in New Zealand public life, and wo look upon ibis death as a national loss." Tho "Lyttelton Times" says:—"Probably there has never been a better loved or a more severely criticised man in tho Dominion than Mr T. E. Taylor, and it is a tribute to tho rare intellect and the generous heart of tho lost lender that '&ven those who were politically and socially opposed to him mourn liis death almost as they would mourn a personal bereavement or a -national calamity. Whatever his faults —and wo. with others, have had to join 'issue with him on many occasions—Mr Taylor’s personality, tho strength that exceeded that of all his rivals and tho gentleness that could bo as gentle as that of a woman, fascinated even those who refused to bo subdued."