THE REFORM GOVERNMENT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1641, 7 January 1913, Page 4

THE REFORM GOVERNMENT.

:; AN AUSTRALIAN APPRECTATpN;, ; :Vj/.; ; _ ; : • An ■ editorial in ■' the current issuo, 0f..; : ;• "Lifo" makes : some ; appreciative refer- i ences to\tho Hon. W.F, JtoW. g\g» " ; , Government. "In New Zealand Mr. Ma* ; ; sey, tho Premier, has a small .majority 111 tho House, but a bigger, and » «yWr.«-y. panding majority outside the House, and ■ f,o is justifying Ms right-to «"»««• M- :,■■■ affairs of tho Dominion by ,the wea« , w.ith which he.ls actually doing .it,, tho Australian: journal I'emMks.,;. .PJ* a V somehow, tho art of .doing things, or «1 .. v getting them done: and the .Ms - ; Cabiult for.-tho jW session of ) Parha, ment is very creditable. It would, be an ■ exaggeration to, Scribe tho ; that have been; parried as. 'great i Jmt , they are certainly useful in; type, PT"; .. Heal inmothod, and plainly run in th«, ; direction of general/public opimon; •. •...■■, > Mr Masscy, it is pleasant to note, Ml what cvory statesman of the °utivingJ)o minions needs, a info ™ 10 n ;of ■»*"» \ and a cleat sense, of tho fact that tIH provinces can best , faking an .adequate share in the, gcnoial , . defence oHho Empire ■ . -, § wgg . tho flas flvlng from one end or inaPncifmto lie other' is a largoftrder, and wo may have to bo content with a more; ■ modest achievement. But Mr..Massej at >■■ list shows that there is J»tM»« ft ft£ ... filial in' his way;of looking at tilings, capacity for 'thinking: Imperially.' ■~- :