MINISTERS AND POSTERITY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 832, 30 July 1910, Page 4

MINISTERS AND POSTERITY.

SOME HAPPY THRUSTS. Mr. L. R. l'hillipps, member for Waitemata, was in imaginative mood in the House yesterday evening, and made a number of very happy thrusts at the Ministry, which caused ripples of laughter in the Chamber. Mr. Phillipps remarked that for the first time in its history the Liberal party was looking beyond the next election,'and .in its proposals to extinguish the- public debt it looked 75 years ahead. The Ministry would by that time be only a remembrance. The Prime Minister, he thought, wculd be remembered as a ■gentleman who by tho fickle hand of fortune was once Prime Minister of New Zealand. The Native Minister would be remembered as an affable gentleman whose faith rested in the possibility of to-morrow. (Laughter.) It was too much to expect that the memory of the Minister for Education would last for seventy-five years, but he would be remembered as a gentleman of wiles and smiles. The Minister for Agriculture would be remembered as having in a flight of ambition lost his political balance. He fell upon a hedge of thorns, and found himself without the sympathy of either side, and the only consolation left him was the enjoyment of the luscious fruit within his reach. The claims to greatness of the Minister for Internal. Affairs were the chief, for his star would forever shine in the constellation of fame, for had he not become immortalised in white phosphorus (a reference to Mr. Buddo's Phosphorus Matches Bill).