"BUILD WELL—AND BUILD GENEROUSLY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10591, 25 March 1912, Page 4

"BUILD WELL—AND BUILD GENEROUSLY.

W-e are not among those who consider that the country has been insulted, cr that the dignity of anybody in particular has beeni hurt, by the placing of t-Jje name of Sir Joseph Ward on .the foundation stone of the new Parliament Buildings. It is a fitting climax, to am ambitious, •though somewhat varied political career, that the name of the most distinguished, if the most unpopular statesman in the country, should be inscribed upon the foundation stoxif?. It matters little, to far as the public is concerned, whose name is there, so long as it is the name of the man in authority for the time being. We would much rather see the name of Sir Joseph Ward on ine stoiie than that of Mr Thomas Mackenzie, for the reason .that the former gentleman has played an important part in the building operations of the Dominion, and in .theniegoHa-tions for new Parliament Buildings in particular. The advice of His Excellency the Governor on the matter of -building is very much to the- point. Lord Islington says, "Build well —and build generously." If the Governments of the •country, whoever they may be, take heed to this lad/vice, there will be no great need for complainit.