WILL WRECK MASSEY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 3 February 1914, Page 2

WILL WRECK MASSEY.

Till' n,\('KVAl(l) N'AVY. WAIRAI' MF.MUKS; DW'LAIIKS. By Tele-graph.—Press Association, Auckland, .lanuarv ',(l. Mr. 11. McCiilluni. M.l', for \Vaiiuu, interviewed »n political matters, stated Mint he was satisfied that (here was a growing desire to see the finances of the country placed in move capable hands,. lie was prepared to stake his political reputation on tlic ability o( Sir Joseph Ward to do more to rejiccc the Dominion from the financial slrin•rency it has been sufToriiifr from ever since the present (lovernment took office Mian any other politician in sight. The lion. J. Allen, no donbl. meant well from a certain standpoint, hut. he laeked the Ion;: experience as well as the, sound optimism of Sir Joseph Ward. "If there is one tliinj; more than 111ollier, apart from its weakness over l!i ■ public linances, thai is jjoiujr to wreck* the Masscy Covcrnineni," said Mr. MrCalliuu. "it is this obnoxious proposal to establish a local navy . Of course, in the meantime we have only the b.l- - of such a policv. The very ihin end of the wcdjre was inserted liy the innocent looking measure passed last session, bill as sure as (he iiijrht follows the day. if (be present band of political tyros are allowed to continue in power after next general olertion Ibis country will be committed lo an evergrowing expenditure (hat will paralyse its development and mar its progress to an extent no one now livintr can' realise." Three-fourths of the members of Parliament if left to themselves would support a reversion to the old policv of -i steady contribution to the 'British Navy!