SIR JOSEPH WARD

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10186, 11 March 1911, Page 5

SIR JOSEPH WARD

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

INTERVIEWED AT SYDNEY.

LADY WARD ENTERTAINED

(Received: Last Night, 10.10 o'clock.)

SYDNEY, March 10,

Sir Joseph Ward', interviewed, stated that lie had recently travelled .from end to end of New Zealand, and had noticed that the remarkable revival in trade and prosperity was not clue to any boom, but to a genoral revival. New Zealand was experiencing the finest season she had ever had l , notwithstanding that in some places there was a shortage of rain. There was a good supply of money, and the fact of the . oversupply is resulting in a , falling off of rate& The division "cf large estate® was proceeding vigorously. As the outcome of the increased settlement there was an. increased volume of exports which last year where a record. He looks upon' the forthcoming Conference as the most important that is ever likely to take plac?, because it means the establishing of a base upon which a structure is to be erected. In future they will havo to consider the conflicting elements alttaelied to selfigcvonimg Dominions, but he was hopeful that men shouldering the responsibility will recognised that unless they go for cohesion, though a loose mixture, it means by degrees the disintegration of the Empire. The Women's Patriot Club gave a welcome at horn© to Lady Waal, who was presented with pieecs of ■silver.

Sir Joseph Ward addressed the meeting, and urged them to impress 'upon their sons the importance of maintaining and adding' to the strength of the Empire. DR PINDLAY ALSO INTERVIEWED. SYDNEY, March 10. ' Dr Findlay, who is a passenger by .the ■ . ictoria,m'.erviewed, oxplained New Zealand: s indetennin-, ate .sentences. He. .said it had been tne meaiis of warning young fellows who were steering dear of hard work. There were one hundred less persons im prison at present than during the corresponding month of •any previous 3'ear. The Act's deterest effect was strikingly noticed.