" A LIVE PARTY."

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3400, 3 February 1920, Page 2

" A LIVE PARTY."

MR \VII;.FUI-ID ON JIIBLRALS. DIVCFE.-\T BUT A. AIILESTONE ON ROAD TO VI(:T'I"k)RY. At 11 eonlplinlent:ll'y social ten.del'e(l to him at Petonc on Thursday night, the Hon.’ 'l‘. W. \-‘\'iifol'(!. who was received with enthusiasm. in the course of his I'enlurks, said: “The Liberal I»’atl':y, with ‘F-.lnne:' Ma.C’ at its head, will be found 3. live party with plenty of initiative and constructive ability, -and no one realises that more than the nwinbers of the Reform Pamty. As time goes on the Liberal Party will grail] :1(ll_1e1'e11ts in the House and in 'tlle l_,'o'.l7lll':\'. for it contains men willc- have helped to govern, and also men who

are fully equipped through experience and ability to control Sta‘-‘e departments with .\'a.‘ilSii-{l(‘ilOll to the Dominion. Who in the ‘P2lrlia.ment of New Zealand can question the great knowledge possessed by a man like the Hon. \V. D. S. l\[aeDon:il(l, on all matters relating to the pro<luctious of the Donlinion“.7 He has served his apprenticeship and become the man best“ fitted to be Minister for Lands in the Ptxrliament of the. country. and every Farmer in New Zealand knows that ‘Farmer Mac’ is a wise. councillor and :1 true friend to the producers. CAPABLE BIEN. “'i‘o-Lhiy IlL‘fllii\_3‘l‘:~‘ of {finance -loom Surge on ‘file political llori'/.011. \’\-'e are told that one‘ man on the Ret'ol'm side who has acted as I\linister for Finance is leziving the Reform Government for other lilmls. (‘on any member of the House of l’:irli3.mel‘it point to any other member who is as capable :1 man as .\linister of I"inance as the ‘Hon. hit .\l)'I,‘XS, who, in thg absence of. Sir .TC.~sepll Word from New Zealaml, proved his worth as Acting-Miiiister for Finance. and gained golden opinio-ns from those who kiiew the work he did? I make hold to say there is no better or safer administrator in the .lf~2el’orm I’al't_\fi to-day than the Hon. Ivlr l\‘ly(‘l‘:<. Let me next t‘:Lke education. and IL at once think of Mr '1“. K. Sidey, of Punedin, :1 member of,the Liberal I}‘a.rt'_\'. whose speeches on ecluczrtioii t‘.ll‘CilLly recorded in Hansard prove him to be equipped beyond all question for the administration of the Education Department, while the Hon. Mr Ngata, returned unopposed at the last election on the Liberal side. is the most brilliant meniber of the native race that sits in Parlimnent to-«lay. No member of the native race in Parliament to-day will dispute that statement.

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“Without going further individually let me say that the Prime Minister realises these facts, and has had them proved to him over and over again. Is there any reason with such men in the forefront of the Liberal Party that we should be dismayed or disheartened at the telnpor'ary reverse sustained by the party at the last election? On the eontrary, the defeat will be looked upon as a milestone on the way to victory while the Liberal Party in the coming session of Parliament will be found’ to provide '3. buttress between extreme Labour and extreme Toryisni, and before long the people of New Zealand will realise that as moderation in legislation, as in evel'ything, is essential to the well4'r3“eing of the Do« minion as a whole, so in consequence they will give their support to that party which stands for moderation. namely. the Liberal Party. As a representative of Labour for Hutt was well as for the Liberals, I feel personally that before ‘three years have pas» sed away a great change will have come ‘over the people, and they will rally to the Liberal standard, perceiving as they will -that it is the only party as at present established which can defeat the extreiiies of the other two parties. GOOD ACTS: __'FAULTY ADMINISTRATION.

“During the election I read and explain to you the provisions of the Board of Trade Bill, prepared under the authority of our Liberal leader, the Hon. VV. D. S. MacDonald, and I told yo-u that it was a pity for New Zealand that its real parent was not administering its provisions instead of its adopted parent, the Prime Minisbe pirovedi Pftpf.'l?N qyii-Utw-‘t' ter. As the ‘days go by my words will he pl'o‘Vod to you with telling eifect, and though the provisions of ‘the Bill should be invoked by the Reform Party. against. those whom it was framed to punish, any delay in setting the niachinery of the Act‘ in motion will cause "those who are responsible for that delay to reap the Whirlwind in the near future. Again. I wish to rt-fer to -the Coal Mines Act, prepared by our Liberal Leader, the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald. That‘ Act contains a r:.lriuse enabling the Government. to obtain colliers for bringing coal cheaply and expeditioilsly to the rzfilltentls of the Dominion. T \\':mt to state 1101'!‘ anal now that that {»(-\\'('I‘ to oh‘i’zlil! ()olllol'S must be used imd any failure to l"X'o(3(‘i".fl ‘_‘:ft<‘l' l-’:‘;rK‘:':'z*nf;;:"»' Slll‘=<“-:10” has 1700;: -gjivrn will ‘tot lie :11‘ the door of the l..iber:l‘ Party.”