This was held yesterday and eulogies came from colleagues at the time and from other parts of the political spectrum. He was a reasonably good PM from 1990 to 1997 and did things that needed to be done. (The first immediately upon becoming PM was being forced to bail out the Bank of New Zealand which had been Stuffed by its management under the direction of Michael Fay at big cost to BNZ shareholders.) His appointment by KCDC to head its Coastal Advisory Panel was and remains controversial, however.