THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With WHICH IS INCORPORATED "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville, Thursday, Aug. 5,1915 NATIONAL GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL

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THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With WHICH IS INCORPORATED "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville, Thursday, Aug. 5,1915 NATIONAL GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL

The question whether we are to have a National Government or not was supposed to have been finally disposed of by the decision of the Opposition caucus held on Wednesday (ißth July ', and conveyed to Mr Massey by Sir Joseph Ward the same day. Statements were looked for in the House that same evening from both gentlemen, but as Mr Afassey chose to remain silent, Sir Joseph Ward could not do otherwise, and although Opposition members were on the gui vivi all the evening, and nocked into the House- on cv Tery occasion when the Prime Minister entered it, migrating to the lobbies again when he quitted it, the sitting closed without any announcement being made on the subject. But the public knew all about it next morning, when both Wellington daily papers contained the correspondence, which had passed between Sir Joseph Ward and Mr Massey, covering the proposals made by the iatter, and rejected by the Opposition. With the smug, self-satisfied air it can on occasion assume, < The New Zealand Times ' expressed its satisfaction at the failure of the negotiations, and there, apparently, the whole business would have ended, but for a higher authority ap pearing upon the scene and taking matters in hand. It speaks well for the courage and high sense of duty His Excellency the Governor has always shown in his dealings with the people of New Zealand, that he should now be throwing the whole weight of Ids influence and authority into the scale, and exerting himself to bring about an understanding between the Parties.