The Daily News. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1913. MAKING GOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 219, 4 February 1913, Page 4

The Daily News. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1913. MAKING GOOD.

Tlif lion. T. Mackenzie i- already doinj,' work at 1 lonic lor the Dominion in liis position as Commissioner. ThU, of course, is only what we nil expected of liim. Accor.liiio- to our he lia- been making \vyy cili|iliatic leplio lately lo that little hand of bll-ybodics who have heen isslliii</ '•waniiiiji* to eniievants" iniu-li on the line of the I'.aron Munchausen's biographies. Thi'M' warnings were issued ostensibly a- a mark of the authors' disapproval of New Zealand's defence .system. The special complain! of these ui'oruloii.s critics is set fortli in a scries of circulars published in Bristol, staline; (hat. "ihe conscription laws of bol.li New Zealand and Australia are carefully ke]it out of sifjht until the emigrants are in the trap, when it is none too easv to »ef out:' Then these unfurl unafe innocent lads who have .strayed nnwit tim/ly into the clulcbcs of the "military d< spot ism" arc sent to prison because they .-.ill not '•become murderers for Hie jiiifroiV.tir pin» wlio are endeavoring t) drain the life blood from the British' people under the cloak of 'patriotism.'" Mr. Mackenzie sa\-. ) n i|,,. ~,,nrso of a letter published by i In- ISri! is))-Ansii\i lasinn. that- the person.-, who .-ail at his

bfi'.cc for information about New Zealand arc told that the Dominion has a system (if universal military training, and "in the majority of instances, when any remark is made by the intending emigrants, it is an expression of appioval of tlie law." Since his arrival in London be has received many more applications for passages to New Zealand than there is shipping accoininodation for. and all the available berths are booked up to April, "so that all the noM' these people are making in Englaml is having lint little effect so far I as the right stamp of emigrant is concerned/" Mr. Mackenzie adds that the public men who make New Zealand's laws are re.-ponsibb; only to the people of the Dominion, but they are not ashamed of the efforts they have made t. provide effective means of protection for a country which is peculiarly worthy of being guided. The High Commissioner can do the defence system no better service than to make the facts regarding it widely known in the Mother Country. This we can depend upon bis doing'. His first excursion in the field of public controversy has been an admirable one, and we can look very confidently to the cx-Miiiisler to guard our interests socially, commercially and politically, with all the energy and ability that lie displayed during' his long service in the House of .Representatives litre. The more we hear of his methods and liis manners the more we are satisfied with his appointment to his high position at Home.