THE GOVERNOR’S SPEECH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 147, 14 August 1911, Page 6

THE GOVERNOR’S SPEECH.

MR A. W. HOC!CI’S VIEWS. “As bare as a phjto-glass window and as bald as a billiard ball,” was Air A. \\ . Hogg’s dcsei intion of the (iovernr.r s Hpveeli (whites lira Wellington eom-pondeut of the “Dytteltoa limes”). He said it was a inisei able, bald-headed epitome of stale neus. witii nothing to eaten °l , • He added that, soaring abme snob matters as the gift of a l)i eadnought, the Herman menace to Abe Aloroccan crisis, he disited to speak wt the Uimutaka deviation. (Daughter.) It was a wild,' bleak incline, and Air Hogg added ho wondered that aenu times he did not emerge from its niiinei ons smukey tiiiincJ.s transformed, into something like bacon; it was a lory railway built for party purposes, and the Hovei nment should take in band some deviation. If the two millions given for a Dreadnought in a moment ol panic caused by a, migrant dory falsehood iiacl been spent on necessary public works, the fa,eo ol .New /calami would have been eii a aged. Mr I'i.sher: \ on were in the Cnbinefc that gave file Droadnonght. A\'hy dulii I uiu resign:' Air llogg; i resigned early enough. I'did so because I dill not agree with the Ministry as to the method of carrying on the public works, and as to the necessity for dealing with (lie monopolist and opening up land for settlement, and the necessity for handling our own finances and establishing a paper currency such as fV\v have in Australia now, and such as we will have to follow soon. Mr I'dslier: Yon should have resigned on tin* Dreadnought issue. Mr Hogg: No; I J would do the same thing again if ! thought Kngland was in a hole and required assistance, but i am confident there was

no necessity for the Dicadnougnt. Wo were misled. Mr ,J. Allen: Who misled yon? Mr Hogg: i cannot toil von. Someone hitched ids waggon to a lie. It was a hare falsehood Hashed over the wires. Ido not think (iermany had the slightest idea of quarrelling with Gioat Britain. It was one of those Tory lies which .1 cannot got to the bottom of.