DR. MACNAMARA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13432, 25 March 1907, Page 7

DR. MACNAMARA.

Dr. ' MacNamara, ; -Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Local Government Board, recently, the cable told .us, -became a member of the Nappertandy, branch of the Irish National

League. He has had an exceptional career. Pp. MacNainara's appointment as Parliamentary* Secretary to the Local Government Board marks another step in a career which has already I>een verp] retagskgfols . (says the TnJjjfliuie). I| i *» £faer©f which he is very proud that he was born in the British Army, actually in the barracks at Montreal, his father being a eblour-ser-geant in the old 4?7h Regiment, which was stationed there in 1861 (the year in which he was born) and for some

years' afterwards. When the regiment [returned to England the MacNamaras settled down in Exeter, and it was in St. Thomas's School in that city where young MacNamara first attracted the attention of the sister of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, Miss Temple, persuaded him to become a pupil teacher. r After completing his apprenticeship :h6 spent tw,o .years „'at thet Borough 'Road Undenominational Training College, and from there he went to Huddersfield as assistant master in a Board •school. He spent eight years, ixi Bristol *as the master of 'a Board school in the slums of that great city, and came to Ifkmdon in 1892 as editor of the School"rriaster. ' "" * ' y As a platform speaker Dr. MacNamara has few equals, and his debating power in the House of Commons/? was strikingly evidenced, during last year's .debates on tHe Eduction Bill. But :she memfber for Camberwell is at his Jvery best at election times among his awn constituents. His speeches are just to their liking, but at question time the fun is t rollicking. "Are you in favour of the repeal of the blasphemy'laws?" asked a lady at one of his meetings last January. "Madam, T'm a golfer," was the swift reply. ''Would you give every woman a vote ?" asked another lady on another occasion. "I think every woman should have either a vote or a voter," retorted the candidate. "Which would you like?" These are but samples of the answers which have made Camborwell

like him. It is said that it, was pn answer to a question which won him the seat* in 1900.* ( "Are you a pro-Boer?" was one of the questions sent up to him. That was answered by the relation of a true story. He told the audience that in ,1866 there was a rebellion* in Canada,, and that British troops were.enpaged in quellingit;.that 33. years after the event the War Office notified every surviving soldier who toqk p^pt in it that it had been decided to award him a medal. A certain old man received the letter and was very proud of it, but six* months afterwards he, died, not having received the medal. Tfyree months after his death the medal was sent to his son. Then, putting his hai*d in his pocket and bringing out the medal, the candidate exclaimed, "Ladies and gentlemen, there is the medal, and. I m the son. Do you think I am the man to want to see Tommy Atkins badly treated?" The cheering was tumultuoos, and from that moment the election" was as good as won.

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