MR. MASSEY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1921, Page 8

MR. MASSEY.

PRESS EULOGIES. By rtess Assn.—Copyright. London, August 26. Mr. Massey has been very busy for the last few days, and the rest on his return voyage will be beneficial, though his health is generally as robust as usual. Mr. Massey’s departure' was the occasion for many requests from leading papers and agencies for final interviews and messages of farewell. The Times published prominently a two-column interview and. an editorial appreciation in emphatic and eloquent terms, and unanimity of the Press generally in regard to the value of the services of Mr. Massey to the Empire has been an exceptional experience in connection with the visit of overseas statesmen.

Tim Daily Telegraph to-day, referring to Mr. Massey’s departure, says: “The Empire owes much to the statesmen from overseas who have .guided and informed its deliberations. Mr. Massey himself lias played as influential a part as any of his colleagues in the events of the last few years, during which he. has controlled the destinies of New Zealand and assisted as a member of the Imperial Cabinet and Allied Council. Like Mr. Hughes, he is not only a strong colonial nationalist, but an Imperialist. He is afraid neither of the word nor the thing, and is not too timorous to allude to the British Empire and speak of it by name, instead of resorting to more or less awkward paraphrases. He is, as may be gathered from his final farewell message, as much attached to the Empire as to his own Dominion, holding firmly to the conviction, that each is necessary to the other. New Zealand may be the Britain of the South, but her freedom and prosperity aepend upon the Britain of the North. That is why Mr. Massey, as" well as Mr. Hughes, lays so much stress on naval defence.”—(Special to Press Association).