A BUSINESS MEN'S CABINET.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1349, 29 January 1912, Page 4

A BUSINESS MEN'S CABINET.

MI!. MASSEY'S CHANCE

Speaking nt Winlnn on AVctlncsday night, at tiio social tendered to Mr. J. K. Hamilton, the unsuccessful candidate for Auvmia, Mr- G. J. Anderton, M.1 , ., said that unless the Kcforin party, when it took over the management-, administered the law in a businesslike way, the Labour party would come in and both the other parties .would be swept out of existence. Mr. lla>sey had attained an end far which lie had"fought for nearly twenty years. The men wanted in his Cabinet'were not theorists, but men.'prepared to deal with the affairs of the country in a businesslike way. lie had the opportunity of filling his Cabinet with Mich men, lor'hi , had a number of them in iik parly. The frentlcnien elected in the Xorlh Island were good, cominonsonse busincfi? men. lie was not coins lo refer to the South Island members', because they might thin!; it was a matter of'selfpraise; 'but there was an opportunity of making a. Cabinet of business men, conscientious men, men prepared to place the interests of the country before anything else, and if Mr. Massey formed that Cabinet with regard to ireograpliical position, and carried out what he (Mr. Anderson) had suggested, he was satisfied the Reform parly would hold the Treasury benches for years.