ELEVENTH BIRTHDAY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 8, 10 July 1923, Page 8

ELEVENTH BIRTHDAY

OF MASSEY GOVERNMENT

FELICITATIONS CONVEYED.

To-day is the eleventh anniversary of the swearing-in of the Reform Administration, which took office on 10th July, 1912. Of the original members of Mr. Massey's Cabinet there now remain tho Prime Minister himself, Sir Francis Bell, Sir William Fraser, who is now a member of the Executive Council without portfolio, Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, and Sir Maui Pomare. With tho exception of sir R. Heaton Rhodes, the gentlemen mentioned above have all had continuous service. When the ■ National Cabinet was in office, Sir Heaton Rhodes resigned his seat to go on a war commission to Gallipoli, and afterwards he assumed control of the New Zealand Red Crosslin London. Sir Heaton .rejoined iq?q CaL'inet at tllQ reconstruction in

_ l'his morning, the executive of the Wellington Reform League waited on Mr. Massey and officially conveyed their felicitations to him on the celebration c-f the anniversary of his Administration coming mto power. Mr. -Massey was also the recipient of numerous telegrams from all parts of the Dominion reminding him of the event, and a meeting of the .Reform members of Parliament accorded him their good wishes, together with hearty assurances of continued loyalty and esteem.

A reminder of the occasion when Mr. Massey assumed control of the affairs of New Zealand hangs in the room of tho Prime "Minister's secretary (Mr. P. D. Thomson). This is a. horseshoe, inscribed "Good Luck," which.was received in Mr. Massey's mail on the morning on. which his original Government was sworn in. Th e horseshoe was forwarded to Mr. Massey from an old lady who resided in the King Country, and, with the exception of one occasion when itwas taken down to be cleaned, it has hung. in the Prime Minister's offices ever since its arrival, being suspended by the original piece of blue ribbon which was attached to it.