Madam SPEAKERI regret to inform the House of the death on 4 January 2008 of the Hon Herbert John (Bert) Walker CMG, who represented the electorate of St Albans from 1960 to 1969 and that of Papanui from 1969 to 1978. He was Minister of Tourism and of Broadcasting and Minister in charge of Publicity from 1969 to 1972, Postmaster-General in 1972, and from 1975 to 1978, Minister of Social Welfare and Minister in charge of the Government Life Insurance Office, of the State Insurance Office, and of the Earthquake and War Damage Commission. I desire, on behalf of this House, to express our sense of the loss we have sustained and our sympathy with the relatives of the late former member. I now ask members to stand with me and observe a period of silence as a mark of respect for his memory.