MINISTERIAL VISITS

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43090, 9 May 1907, Page 1

MINISTERIAL VISITS

For manly years in the past it was a constant complaint that the visits of Ministers of the Crown to the more out of the way districts were like the ■visits of angels, few and far between. The members of the Ward Cabinet cannot, however, be accused of want of knowledge of the colony, and especially of the North Island. This district, induidng the Waikato and further South, has been visited bv the Sons. Mid Nab and J ,Millar, .Ministers who hail from the far South, and who necessarily knew little of the North. That the knowledge now* gained by the Minister of Lands and the Minister of Marine, -null benefit the neglected North they have already stated. To both thie resources of the North Auckland have been a revelation. As to this immediate district we have the assurances of Hon Mr MbNab that ho will so impress on his colleagues the pressing necessity for throwing open large areas in .tho Pia&o* iSjwaanp that the money ne«

cessary for the preliminary work will be granted. The visit of the Hon. Mr Millar will be no less beneficial, for he has with no uncertain voice announced his intention to grapple' with

some of the grievances of the people, j and where necessary introduce amendImetnts of the laws. The Hon. Mr Millar I has most favorably impressed all who j have interviewed him, and shown the qualities which his constituents and his friends have known him to possess. He has in his dealing with the leaders of the recent strike in the South esj tablijjhed a reputation for courage and impartiality which will never be for-

| gotten. Labour organisations made a i serious. eiVor in. their estimate of the I character of the new Minister of i Labor when they thought they would receive concessions at his hands, be-

cause of his well known leanings to trade unionism. They bad a rude awaking. It is one thing for a man to express his views on questions of the day, n,s an ordinary citizen, but quite another thing when that man has the

responsibility on his shoulders of n.j member of the Crown, a trustee of the privileges of the people, and an. administrator of the laws on the ( Statute-Book. Mr Millar has shown he-possesses qualities which commend the admiration and earn the respect of .even- upright man. We anticipate a, great career for the Hon. Mr Millar n,s an administrator and a Statesman.