SIR JOSEPH WARD'S LAST MOVE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1463, 11 June 1912, Page 4

SIR JOSEPH WARD'S LAST MOVE.

THAT RESIGNATION—WIIY P ■ , (liy Telcffrapb.—SpcciaJ Correspondent! ■ Christelwrch, Ju;:« 10. Sir Joseph Ward's withdrawal from th# Imperial Trade Commission will undoubt- * c-jiy (remarks iho "Press') add piquancy to a session which, in any owe, promised to lie full of interest, but we cannot 10i'rain from remarking that, in first accept- ■ ins the Imperial appointment, then dai'y- ; j]j<r with an invitation to cuter polvticd;v-.. and filially rosi|>iiing - to continue his political veils v ; *„> in K-ew Zealand, Sir Joseph Ward seems to have treated his Majesty s warrant of appointment, tho Imperial.. and his colleagues on the commission with.- .- ■ less respect than was rcasonablvkuo . such a case. "The Press" thinks that the" worst fca ture about tho affair is the fact -that ■ jSS,;:;,/: Joseph Ward's vacillation will--naturally.^; eivo rise to tho impression that .tbts portant • Imperial appointment - is;;. ,*■ : used as a mere pawn in the petty: game of v .* local politics, to bo taken up for a. t»V?. .. dallied with, and then laid downj agai b, ■ - possiblv with the view of handing it on • v .«": to someone else. If suchia course- seems likely to facilitate the underground- in- :;vg-y.,; triples which arc know 11 to bo aloof, - whatever else happens r.ow,,(here must no further countenance given: to Una injurious suspicion. - : e ilfiof. AVc approved ifio- appointment;-ot._ o»r^ Joseph Ward Ijecaus© tho whole, lie was tho best; man. available for iho position. We / tru;t,.-hov.-ever,. that the "Stop-Gap Ministry.--.will not bo allowed to make another recommendation, .&,$■ and use tho appointment fortho purpose of fretting rid of some mrtv whoro absence-from , ;v v; - . Uui'l facilitate the parly mimoeiivw. - - which they poem to' understand a deal better than the proper work goveminent. or the interestsof the Lmpiw. .- ,