THE NEW MINISTRY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10598, 2 April 1912, Page 5

THE NEW MINISTRY

ANOTHER LABOURITE'S VIEWS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) KEVIN, Last j Air Robertson, JVi.P. for Otaki, i'rij terviewed here, laughingly said that lie supposed he must get into foe, as I lie noticed all the Labour members j were 'being 7«,r6ed unto . print since the [new Ministry was announced. ; He considered it ceiifirjnly tihe' most' Rad- | >ical Minitdtry ever formed i'n New Zealand'; ... Wllplle those alkeady on the land.cpujd feel; assured* from the personnel of theiCahk<et, that the i farmeiV interests iwouJd be promoted, the masses (had good .reason .to believe that problems such as the cost of diving and, ttih-e limproviament of the machhie>ry for the settlement of industrial disputes, would he tackled: in earnestness. On tLfc whole, the new Cabinet had'as gooit a chance of carrying on as any Cabiuci could have in the present state, of pairtiejS l . Thle 1 Opposition .criiicnsm of the. Mackenzie Ministry would apply with even grea.-. ■tea' forcte- to amy possible. Opposition 'Cabinet, for of necessity. ; such a comfcinataori. would! comprise untried men. : Mr Robertfcon. did not think ?'t advisable that .Ltafocur should have a. seat in the Cabinet.(this' time. Concluding, \lre : said he had seen the interview viith Mr iPayne, M.P.,, telegraphed from Napier, regarding Mr Payne's dletenmtaition to.vote against the Mackenzie (Ministry a.nd support MT Massey conditionally on Labour being gi.ven 'Ministerial representation. Mr (Robertson l doubted' the statement. He, isaid that, fronii what he knew of Mr Payne's views, the >was indd'ned to think that Mir Payne had been misrepresented.