NEW ZEALAND MINISTERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 6 December 1916, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND MINISTERS.

Commenting on the arrival of the Hon. W. F. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward in England, the Fall Mall Gazette expressed the following appreciation of this Dominion:

"They have already experienced something of the welcome awaiting them, but they have yet to discover the real warmth of the Mother Country's feelings towards the most remote of the Empire's outposts. There are no favourites in the Imperial family, but if there were we should require long odds against the standing of the Dominion which Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward so happily represent. There is a quiet spontaneousness in .New Zealand's acts which has always aroused our admiration and gratitude. She sent her sons to the Boer War at the first hint of need, and the outbreak of the Great War found her big t contingents only awaiting the signal to embark. The epic of Gallipoli proved again and again her heroism and self-sacrificing devotion to the cause of the higher civilisation, and the presence of the Anzacs at the supreme points of danger on the western front show the ideal coupling of tenacity with courage and selfishness with conviction.

"New Zealand embodies the new spirit of progress at its best and worthiest. If it were possible for this old country to transform itself into a new country of pioneers, the island Dominion, with its proud, but not self-adver-tising ideals, would be accepted by the majority of us as the model. Perhaps we hear in it the clearest echo of the British spirit, and possibly it disdains less than others some of the foibles which can so easily be made to look like faults. But whatever the reaso;:, Great Britain's tie with New Zealand is so fast on this side that the Imperial visitors will hnave a stirring talc to tell when they return." Sir Thos. Mackenzie, our High Commissioner at Home, states that Sir Edward Henry, the Chief of the London Police, told him that no men gave him so little trouble as the New Zealanders.