THE LOQUACITY OF LEONARD

NZ Truth, Issue 1127, 7 July 1927, Page 6

THE LOQUACITY OF LEONARD

ji LTHOUQH one of the tetest additions to th» Upper House, Leonard Monk A !«!« is well versed 'in Parliamentary , lore. The mantle of his well--beloved friend; the late T. E. Taylor,rdescended upon' him m 1911, when h* Jnt ; J D Hairto the right-about at the by-election m that 'year, and Although lie had some hard tussles at later ..contests Christchurich North re!cyal,s«PPcrf to the^wkrd and Me Kerizte 'Governments, but m later years-while still avowedly a Liberals' I oval tv became strained because of his fears concerning a Liberal-Labor compact to oust the Reform Government. And so Reform got his vote when they were m most urgent need of it. i ■ . it , " Like his predecessor, /L.M. I. first gained prominence as an apostle of +omnVpance and then as\ a militant "prohib.," and there is scarcely a village hill \n the Dominion that has not vibrated. with his impassioned denuncia- '+• nc of the "traffic." His gifts of oratory also enabled him to achieve some ILmp m England on the temperance platform. r , ' Tame ii w Frank Morton— rhimself a .journalist-lecturer and no mean iiirJoe of one— -who had no love for many of Isitt's views, averred a few years back that he was the only member; of the House who could be cor—&haiTlie e too!f -off the gloves he delighted the galleries with his harduittinn and trenchant criticism. Although a fully-licensed minister of the «M Weslevan Church, he has dropped the 'freyerend" these many years. TKere is nothing of the orthodox, depressing type of killjoy about Isitt. Uo hat oerhaps, a better conception of sportsmanship than some who claim JonoDoly of that attribute and. who are seized with obliquity of vision trhnn they attempt to discern it m others^ '.,'■■• '.■■..: Sinht through the years his eyes have retained their merry twinkle, and • uilnrime he literally radiated sheer joy at the mere fact of being alive m the Tittle old world he has tried so hard :to "uplift."