NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 73, 26 July 1915, Page 4

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.

The Lyttelton 'rimes thus views th' political situation: ''Provided Mr Massey is prepared to discuss the estahlisliment of a Xational Cabinet with Sir Joseph Ward upon fair terms —that is. on a hasi, s oi' consistent with the relative strengths of the Government and Opposition follow ings—the duty of the Opposition is, in our position, quite clear. Parliament is called upon during the current session not to wrangle on party lines but to pass some of the most important legislation in the history of the Dominion. It has to provide for enormous abnormal financial re-

quirements, to frame important new schemes of pensions and taxation, to arrange for the supply of money for public works on probably novel terms, and to perfect all the methods for assisting the Empire through the war. Parliament and the country require the most efficient and representative Cabinet that can be seen rod, quite irrespective of the future prospects of an v party. In fact, until the Germans are vanquished there should be no parties—there should be a strong Xational Government, and no Opposition.