MR NASH’S TRIBUTE
P.A. WELLINGTON, Nov. 3. “With the death of Peter Neilson, New Zealand generally, and the Labour movement, in particular, has lost a great but modest man,” said Mr Nash to-hight. “No more sincere or fair-minded man ever sat in Parliament. Though ■he spoke little about himself, his generosity and sympathy for those less fortunate was well known to all who knew him.
“ Peter Neilson began life as a baker, In times of distress in Dunedin, no worker's family went without bread if Peter Neilson or his partner heard about it.”
Mr Nash said Mr Neilson’s energy, consideration and sense of duty to the electors and to the country never flagged until his retirement through ,ill-health in 1946. “He will be deeply mourned and missed by the party and the country. He was a man with whom I was proud to be associated," said the Acting Prime Minister.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26920, 4 November 1948, Page 8
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