IN MEMORIAM.
The Right Honourable W. F. Massey (Late Prime Minister of New Zealand.) Statesman ! New Zealand mourns to-day thy loss: This Lord’s Day sees the passage of thy soul; Around our shores the moving waters roll In solemn requiem: ‘neath the Southern Cross, No nobler soul than thine has sped across The Great Divide, nor one more deeply lov’d; The silver of thy service now is prov’d, The gold of all thy work death frees from dross. Staunch and great-hearted chieftain, Egmont’s brow Fronts not the heavens more majestical, Nor braves the elements stoutlier than thou Hast stood the storms of State, o’ermastering all. New Zealand ’neath thy shadow rested: new Her people’s heart hears thy last heavenward call! Samuel Prenter. The Manse, Hampden, May 10.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3714, 19 May 1925, Page 17
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127IN MEMORIAM. Otago Witness, Issue 3714, 19 May 1925, Page 17
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