THE NEW MINISTRY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10601, 6 April 1912, Page 5

THE NEW MINISTRY

AS VIEWED BY A MINISTER. MR COLVIN INTERVIEWED. fßy Telegraph—Press Association.) , CHRISTCiHimOH, Last Nidit. The Hon/ J. Calvin, Minister of Mines, arrived here from Wellington to-day, en route for the West Coast. Asked regarding his views on. the political situation, Mr Goflvin remarked that he had little to say. He believed that the Mackenzie Ministry would prove eqm'al to the task of retail] ing offifce, despite, the anticipations of 60'iwethat tho contrary would be the case. .He thought; the 'Ministry was one of the best that the Dominion had ever had, : and was a strong one from a debait-ing point of view. Personally, Ma- Colvin said his own interests were 'bound up in the mining indi'fitry, and he had a great deal cf sympathy for the. .industry, which he considered is one of the bept colonisers in the world. All his life he had been either engaged in mining br in business connected with the industry'. He recognised that ho had r: liard, uphill dumb in following hi/3 ipredecesEiCr (the Bon. R. McKenzie), but he intended exerting .his utmost endeavours to piusth. ahead the mining industry in all its phases—gold, coal, and .oil. He fcfcped to be able, bin his (present visit to the Cbalst, .to-visit the State coa.l mines at Rainanga and S'edd.onville, as. well as the different ■mining centres.. Asked if there were ai.iv recent developments in eomiecfoion with the Kbtnfcu oil fields, Mr (Cblvwi replied that he possessed no official' irforra'atdon ; hut he learned (from .a genttomam who recently visit-, •fed the field that the prospects were (improving. Mr "Colvin leaves by the Cass train to-anorrow morning for the Wbst Coast.