Ministerial Movements.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 6, 8 January 1904, Page 2

Ministerial Movements.

MH SKIIIION IN WESTLANI), (Per Press Association.) HOKITIKA, Jan. 7. The i'remier opened the Kokatalvi 1 Ik-day. On ui'i'ivat the harwes iiw; removed front lvis carriage and lie aitid Mrs Koddon wore drawn across the bridge by sons of the settlers. In an iukliv.s.s to the ff&therizig the Premier pointed ant that tlm oanstriurtion of the bridge conferred a gnat l)o»ii on the settlers ami threw open an arcu of .sonic six thousand acres of Crown land. The creamery, which Imid been estaJblishud, was am additional evidence of lire prospei ity of the district. Jlr Seddon referred in heling terms to .the .luiklen demise of his friend ami luto colleague, the Hon. W. C. Walker, which sad event tended to dim the pleasant iiMinion with his (the ProinierV old friends amd constituents. He urgwl upon the oklor settlers tho n'ialom of siviiig that their sons au.iJ d'uugilvter.s were settled on tho land. From his experience tho settlers were the l?est-to-«lio ]>eople in tlia colony, ui.'d in all reupects the most vahmble and .successful colonists wero tluose who were un the laml. Itoads ainlcl bridal's were of paramount importance in the development and settlement of the country, but tlio construction of such works could nut be done without money, ajwl the colony wus lo be congratulated on I'le successful flotation of the recent half-mil lion loan. Hy finding tho money in the country amd thus showing confidence in ourselves tho colonists were improving their credit alirond, and the more self-contained wo were the better our credit would be. When the main 'trunk lines ot railways were completed the necessity fur borrowing largely for public ivorks would U> reinovod. The premier with pri-de referred to the fact, that lie had repre.seirt.ad the peoplo. of the Koikatahi for four and twen.y years in the New Zealand Parliament without a single break. Speak-, ng of lvis old road board col leases* lie said lhen.> weie now only two remaining of those wli'G originally sat ivi't'h him, and of the provincial councillors of sixteen only five renamed. lit' wus tlie only member ■vlio hii'.l sat continuously in Parliament since 1879. He was lvuppy to ■ay l luit lie luid left Wellington with i l.'g'!it heart. The finances of tho olony were never sounder, arull ha .mtici[.attiil for the nine months oi Jie linaiK-ial year there would bo an ncreuso over last .veal 's revenue for the same period of aibout £4(10,000.

TIT-AMES, Jan. 7. Hon. J. McCiowhn visited Paeroa to-day and met several deputation* Wm principal one waa from the <&£ nemuri County Council, in rofewnctk to tlu» silting of Uio river through* mimng operations. Mr McGovvwi ad-, wjstxi the formation of a-river board. Ahimter leaves to-morrow forCoromamlel, ami on Momlay joiurne.v.s to Auckland, anid thciicc to. .Wellington. art °' h<! rctu ™ 8 t0 »