WILL WE FEDERATE?

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 38, 27 January 1912, Page 6

WILL WE FEDERATE?

FEDERAL PREMIER’S OPTIMISTIC FORECAST. CORROBORATION NOT IN EVIDENCE. (Received 27, 8.50 a.m.) Sydney, January 27. / The “Daily Telegraph,” in a* leader, says, .the people of New Zealand do not seem fired with the resolution of the Federal Labour Conference that negotiations for closer relations should imnlediately be opened. It banter“New Zealanders’ attitude suggests the iciness of the worker who wad offered an Irish rise in the shape of a reduction of wages or dismissal.- There is an utter absence of any signs corroborating Mr. Fisher’s forecast that New Zealand may join the Federation within twenty years.” It suggests that New Zealanders are. people who selfishly consider themselves first and had lost the sense of what it might do for them and to them bei/ig four days off Australia under Governments beneficently Bent on turning Federation into class autocracy which shall be a law unto itself- in their contemptuous indifference. “Is it,” it asks, “ingratitude these islanders display or a sense of humour?”