RESOLUTION BY WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11668, 2 July 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

RESOLUTION BY WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.

The local branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union sent to the Hon. W. Hall-Jones the following resolution : — "We, the members of the Nelson Women's Christian Temperance Union, desire to express our sense of the profound loss the Colony has sustained in the lamented death of the Hon. Richard J. Seddon. Thi9 is neither the time nor the opportunity for dwelling at length on the character of the measures which the inseparably associated with his truly great name— measures which have justly earned him an Imperial fame: but we cannot refrain from expressing our sense of indebtedness to che statesman whose Government was the first in the British Dominions to grant women the privilege and responsibility of political power; and whose legislation has been signally stamped with the purpose of uplifting every child and citizen of our beloved Colony into fuller privileges of life, both educational and industrial. While we are moved with sympathy for Mrs Seddon and her family in the terrible blow they have sustained by the swift and unexpected death of a loved husband and father, we cannot but realise that his death, painless and in the midst of hia labors, and at the zenith of his fame, is not without its glory and its advantages: for it has already summoned the attention of the world to the man and hia work, so that we may truly say, 'he being dead yet speaketh. ' "