PREPARED TO WAIT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 244, 15 April 1912, Page 7

PREPARED TO WAIT.

OPPOSITION IX NO HURRY. > Speaking at Mdthven last week, Mr. [Massey said the Opposition were in no I hurry to go on the Treasury benches. Their time would come, and he was prepared to wait for it. The present position had served to show the imperfections, weaknesses and dissensions in the Government party. Their dissensions were shown more clearly by the selection of the present gentleman who led tlfe party. Men who had served the party faithfully for twenty years had been passed over and a man appointed who had been one of the most prominent Oppositionists in Parliament. The new Government asked to be given a show. "Give us a chance; play the game!" was what they were asking. "Exactly," Mr, Massey continued. "But why don't thvy play the game? Why don't they face the music, and give the representatives of the people an opportunity of showing whether 'they have tliie confidence of the eounifcry? That is 'the way to play the game." A Government in that position should not be allowed 'to make the important appointments that would be made between now and the time the House met. 'Mr. 'Massey referred to the inclusion of four Canterbury members in the new Cabinet. Canterbury, he said, had previously been represented by one member —Mr. Buddo—about whom he had heard no complaints. Now, however, it required four members to give the same satisfaction that had been given bv Mr. Buddo.