“DAILY MAIL ON MR. MASSEY.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 July 1919, Page 5

“DAILY MAIL ON MR. MASSEY.

A FAREWI':‘aL.L PAI\EGYRIC_ F ' ZJUND-.:-N, June 30. Offic.ial_—Referring to Mr, Massey’s departure, the Daily Mail editorially says:—Mr. Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand, leaves Paris to-day on a return to. that fair. far Dominion. He departs with a creditable record of service for State and Empire. As a member of the Imperial War Cabinet and as New Zealand’s plenipotentiary at the Peace Conference those who are acquainted with Mr. Massey’s Work in Paris will readily agree that few statesmen have rendered better service to the Empire. His tenacity of purpose and sound commonsense have often maintained British interests when it would have been easier ‘to have weakened on principle and accepted less valuable ,re.sults. That remarkable docufiient the report of the Responsibilities Commission. bears theimpresg of his stern ~..sens_e.of jus‘Vtic “and unswervablc"» attaChhl'ent. to ;the—;_'Elnpire:’s cause. It is in no small ?IIIOZI,:SUT€ .‘-to 11iS_'StatCSI118g11iIIO acuinlell' that,[Sa_mo:i will liever '."again be §’con_trol_le_d by ‘a. Foreign Poiver, and 3110 ,has""secured‘ for New Zealand. a lshare of the ‘valuable phosphate isilanci of Nauru _il_l the South Pacific. ‘New Zealand and the Empire may-be |weli.satisi:_'i_ed with his work at, the ;Peace Conference, and We wish him fGodspeed, ‘ ‘ : '