WELLINGTON TOPICS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1927, Page 4

WELLINGTON TOPICS

WETTING THINGS DONE. MR HENRY FORD'S WAY. (Special to “ Guardian.”) WELLINGTON, March 20. A correspondent of the ‘‘Dominion” who has been reading the latest of Henry Ford's literary productions suggests that the members of the Cabinet should make themselves familiar with the contents of the volume. ‘‘Any government,” he says, “ that could permit such an industry its butter to get into its present tangle, could pay so much fur To Worn so soon after the soldier scUi'ement fiasco, could develop a system el immigration that has no definite method of absorbing the immigrants, and could say the acute unemployment was not a national question, -urely could with considerable benefit to itself swat up ‘Great To-day and Greater Future’. The man who gets things done is getting them done all right—to a turn. This virile young country lias reached a stage of its development where a man of vision would lie more use than one whose qualification is throwing a bull. You ci rtaiidy need your coat oil' for that, hi the days of the pioneer most big livers had a ford for a crossing. New Zealand has come to the crossing. Instead of coats off with Coates, how about fording the lord with Ford ? Obviously the ''Dominion’s” monopoly of the morning newspaper field is not going to hamper the candid critics of the Prime Minister. HIRER AI. REVIVAL. Mr Harry Atmore's eontribul ion to the ‘‘Liberal Revival” discussion is characteristically frank. The memher for Nelson goes no further than the general election of eighteen months ago to lirnl the source of all the troubles that are besetting the country at the present time. lie recalls the fact that the return of the Prime Minister and his pariv to office by an over-whelming majority was due mnin!v to a great advertising campaign in which it was proclaimed from one end of the Dominion to the other that Reform was the only bulwark capable of staying the insidious advances of destructive .Socialism and devastating Communism. The electors were toi'd that the Labour Soiialistic Party were seeking to introduce into New Zealand a class of tyranny “that would kill i individual enterprise, paralyse productive effort, and plunge the country into a. state of chaotic turmoil.” The impending menace of approaching anarchy was pictured in such lurid colours, according to Mr Atmore. that many Lib- • rals and many sane Labourites stainneded into the Reform Camp and gave Mr Coates a majority no other Prime Minister had had since the days of Mr Soddnu. And then in the very first session of the now Parliament, adds this • searching critic, began a : veritable orgy of socialistic legislation j and administration. WHAT REFORMERS SAY. Mr Atmore quotes from speeches delivered by Reform members of the i House in justification of his indict-1 meiit. Mr 11. M. Campbell, the member for Hawke's Ray. he shows, had t referred to the Dairy Control Hill ns “ a Socialistic or Communistic measure.” and had declared that “nothing could he more disastrous to the conn-j try.” Mr J. A. Nash, the member for Palmerston North, denounced the same • "ensure as “ the nearest approach to Polshevism we have had in this conn-

irv.” and insisted that the producers were “having their rights taken away from them.” Mr A. Harris, a faithful henchman of the party was even more outs;>:>l;en in his denunciation of the

Government's tcversal of its electioneering professions and “I do not know what the Government stands for,” lie jri ttsted. " Dues it stand for the elimination of all private enterprise? . 1 do not know what the Government is coming Lo with its socialistic- control ol practmli'y everything; . ... inn-., a-lueit to Unit, wo have wluit i.ium.tiii. ili.v a legi.li.--ed confiscation , I in-ate capital. It that is moro ln.siia.s-s in government and less government in bti-im ss, then save me lrom l-asine-ss la,-iii s ol that kind.” Air Danis made no apology for his (-undid v, i-.is i.ecu Use, as lie said, lie had been sent to tbe House lo keep l lie Govcrni:u ml straight. NEW ZEALAND'S CRICKET ERH.

'i he i ’'. ! ■ 1 arewc!l:ug ol tlu* New ZeaL.u 1 ur.kmcis :it tlie- Town 1 lull ill neon u>-d;q. mis. by cnnnniii roncnl, .no «'i tin: l.- .st de.’ighti t;l iiinl impressive Inn.i i*.ns ol tiie kind ever luino.-.s-id in A iliington. Jlit- big 1 1 :il 1 ivas Villi Idled. largely by ilftivi* IoIIOIVCTS of ti t- " besL ol' ill.' games,” ami tim audience gave n rousing reception to the- members of tin.- ten in and punctuated with discn-tioii and warmth tinpoints made by the various speakers. The .Milvor wan n little- nlfk-iul. as a

man might ho who had not tasted at first hand the joys of the game, anil the Mon. William Xosworthy, repii-sm-tinLi tin- (iovernment, perhaps was a trilie more weighty than tin- oceiision deiiiandcd. Hut Sir I-'rancis Bell struck exactly the right note, remindin'; the pioneers of Xew Zealand cricket in England that the result of the battle was of less consequence than was the maimer in which they fought. Mr Man Reese foflowed in the same strain with all-inspiring llucncy, and Mi Warwick Armstrong, the captain of the Australian visiting team, when applause allowed him to speak, hove generous testimony to the skill and sportsmanship of the Dominion's representatives. "As good as we are” was the assertion with which ho clinched lii.s appreciation. Finally Mr Lowry, tlu- Captain of the team, said exactly ilie tilings his friends would have had him say under his burden of responsihii'ity. It was a great send-off for the missionaries of Xew Zealand cricket.