MR MASSEY.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1921, Page 3

MR MASSEY.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. Hle-eivod This Day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 26 Mr Massey lias been very busy during the last few days, and the rest on the return voyage will he beneficial though .li is health generally is robust as usual. Mr Massey’s departure was the occasion for many requests from leading papers and agencies for final interviews and a message of farewell. The “Times” published prominently a two column interview and editorial appreciation in emphatic and eloquent terms, and the unanimity of the press ovnerally in regal'd to the value ol the services' of Mr Massey to the Empire has been exceptioneal by the experience in connection with the visit of Overseas statesmen. The “Daily Telegraph” to-day referring to his departure says the Empire owes much to the stntemen from overseas who guided and informed its deliberations. Mr Massey himself has played as influential a part ns any of his colleagues in the events of the last few years, during which lie has con trolled the destinies of New Zealand and assisted as a member of the Imperial Cabinet and Allied Council. Like Mr Hughes, he is not only a strong colonial nationalist but an inipcriali I He is afraid neither of the word nor the thing and is not too timorous to .•ill tide to the British Empire and I speak of it by name, instead of resorting to more or less awkward nnraplirnse. He is, as may be gathered from his final farewell message, a s much attached to the Empire as to his own Dominion, holding firmly to the conviction that each is necessary to the other. New Zealand may be the Britain of tlie South but her freedom prosperity depends for mauv v"t come imon, th Britain of Ibe That is wliv Mr Masse v as well as Mr Hughes lavs so much stress on naval defence!.