A QUEER IDEA.
The Hon. G. W. Russell lias a queer conception of the qualincations of a Cabinet Minister. In the course of a speech at Stratford, he asked what qualifications Mr Massey had for tlie position of a Cabinet Minister. Outside of Parliament, said Mr Russell, he no position excepting a seat 011 a County Council. It has come to this, then, that before a man is qualified for the position of a Cabinet , Minister he must nave served oft'' a School Borough Council, Road Board, Charitable Aid Board, Harbour Board, Education Board and Cemetery Trust! High, ideals, noble aspirations, political achievements count for nothing. Unless a man has served on: a School Committee he cannot be a Cabinet Minister! What -would Mr W. PemIber Reeves, or Mr J. A. or Sir Wim. Hall-Jones, or the late Mr Ballance ithink of sucOLi an. idea? All of these, an'd many more, have become Cabinet Ministers without having served a day ujion a local body.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10604, 10 April 1912, Page 4
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164A QUEER IDEA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10604, 10 April 1912, Page 4
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