A MONSTROUS PROPOSAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10520, 8 January 1912, Page 4

A MONSTROUS PROPOSAL.

The Ghrfiistchumh "Press" refens. to the proposal that' Sir Joseph. .Ward should hold office until after March 31st. aiS' "monstrous and indefensible." It addis: "If we regarded the matter purely firc'an a party standpoint, we should quietly allow Sir Joseph. Ward to pursue the dfflatory tactics by which he w dragging the 'liberal' cause through, the miud, confident that the indignation of the country would simply boi) over and find most enuphaitdo expression. - its soon' a* Parliament is permitted to meet. Wie have some regard, however, for the credit of our representative institurtiionis as a whole, and therefore we protest with all emphasis at our command against the-con-tinuance of the present travesty of .representative goveraMnont. Not only is the Prim© Minister without a majority in the House, but lie ha* lost the two ablest of his Ministers, and is* leJft waftfli a mere tag, rag and bobtail concerning whom even his owir supporters say that two, if not three of them ought to be. called upon to resign. To attempt to cling to office in. such) circumstatnices is' the hieight of and we cannot heiMeve that such' a state of things will be allowed to endure imuch. longer."