MR MASSEY’S TRIP.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1923, Page 3

MR MASSEY’S TRIP.

: !!V TELEGRAPH PER I’RKSS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Aug 19. A complimentary dinner wa- ter.deie,i Mr Ma-sev by tlie Wellington Chamber o| Commerce, there being a huge and representative gathering, and Mr .!. Myers (president) being chairman. He welcomed Air Massey, and said lie li gin tin* least the Chambers of Commerce could do would be to give Hie Prime Minister a good send-oti on Ins important- mi-ximi. 'Uh* people* of " Zealand would he behind Mr Mas.-ey at

tho conference. Do behalf of the Chamber. Mr »■ A Longiiet. viee-ore.-ideiit. presented ’lr Mass'v with a liaiidsonie tend fountHin pen! as a token of the e-teen, and regal'd ill w fill h lie was held. _ Mr Massev thanked them tor then ecod wi-ltes and valuable present. He i.oped lo do some good at the conferences Important matters would U> discussed. He believed the future welfare of the Empire lor a very long ume mi'dll depend on the result. Me M>" at "'length on Imp-rial trade and Imperial preference, and dealt eener.allv with tlie matters now I’d-’" the nations. He got a splendid hear-

Dealing with Dominion nflaiis. n claimed the ( fovernmeiit. bad <jon. work ami passed uselul legismD,,., Ender the State Advances Act. IHrliainent had provided more money fer farmers, settlers, and workers on casv terms. Tho Government respo ,d----,H| '(o the best of its < apaeitx to 1 h ~r v calls upon it. He Imped the lef ' ■ ,|... cciluctioii of taxation o s almi! tor tio* leoui im. would lie carried still lurther next s<s-

S,, Mr V.'ilford promised the British Kmi ,in ‘ i ..T i ih!'' i Party and the Reform Party on the ut the Km,ore. Wlule he l 1 "’ ediccred an imperialistic socech.'referring to the many Empire problems waiting solium • Trade Coinmissionei l.lm.sln I possible to )i'-omote tbi „-osperity of the Don,,,non Other speeches wee guen.