IMPERIAL WAR CABINET.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1917, Page 4

IMPERIAL WAR CABINET.

NEW ZEALAND’S REPRESENTATION. WELLINGTON November 19. We should hear something 1n a little while says a Press, correspondent who is going Home to tepresent New Zealand on the Imperial War Cabinet at its next meeting which should be held in April. Mr. Massey has no intention of going away from New Zealand himself, so*-that if New Zealand is to be represented another Minister, or, perhaps other Ministers must be sent .

It is possible that Sir Joseph Ward will gfi. He made his yearly visit to his own district rather earlier than usual this year, and it is possible that he has done this in preparation for his departure from New Zealand early in the new year. He will probably wish to putlhe second portion of the war loan on the market before he goes, and about the beginning of March, or even earlier. It is not expected that the raising of the second portion of the loan will he an easy operation and for this reason the Government will prefer that Sir Joseph Ward should be here himself to see it through.

If another Minister .is to accompany Sir Joseph Ward it will have to be Sir Janies Allen . It is even possible that Sir James will go alone. He holds the portfolio of Defence, and also he is known to most of the men he will have to meet in the Imperial Cabinet. Some little time ago Sir James Allen could not- have been spared from this country, but the defence work is now such that it would not be impossible for another Minister to undertake it. Sir 'James Allen would pei-aps be glad to lie relieved from it for a time.