A FEARLESS FIGHTER

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6598, 12 May 1925, Page 5

A FEARLESS FIGHTER

WORK FOR EMPIRE UNITY SIR JOSEPH WARD’S REGRET WELLINGTON, Sunday. A tribute to the late Prime Minister'was paid to-night by Sir Joseph Ward. “The death of Mr Massey will be genuinely deplored by all sections of the country,” he said. “My own feeling is one of great sympathy for Mrs Massey and family. Mr Massey’s loss to them is naturally greater than to anyone else in the community. To the people of the country that he has so long and publicly served it comes as a great blow. After all it does not matter what one’s politics are. When the Great Reaper removes one from the fields there must, even among those who in his life differed however strongly from him, be a feeling of great sorrow that he had not lived to finish his public career and to have lived in quiet retirement and ended his days i„ peace and happiness among his loved ones. was in Parliament, continued Sir Joseph, “when Mr Massey first entered it, and although we were on opposite sides and many times crossed swords both in and out of the Uouse I always recognised that he was a’strong man, full of courage and fearless leaded.”