THE PREMIER BESIEGED.
If 'the .first official trip of the Prime Minister in to the country, is to be iic-eep-tcd- as 'a -criterion cif what iis to regul'.nrly happen, the ,'Hnn. \V. F. Maesoy is in for an 'nteresting and 'exciting time d,wring -i-ho next year or taiJcj. On- his way to Woc-civiMc he was besieged bv deputationiist.s. On fhfe arrival at the junction town he had'a dozen and one grievances poured 1 into his sympathetic, ears, and enMs wfly hack to Wellington he was again, pursued by the übiquitous de-putationi-ser. The deputation business is being carried to extremes in this eountiry. It would be far more dignified, though .perhaps a little less courageous, if those.'having ireq-uestis or complaints to make were to put 'till e.in in -wint'.ng. A dept'tat'ion on n-n limportamit notion-al question may ibe excused, ibut when Ministers are pesiteied wHlh . requests of a' purely
depcHiir.c-ii.tul chteictea - tluey are be-
ing martyred on the altar of the parish pu.it;p, and the more Borious afllalre of State -i«rc jUrtmd to suffer.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10676, 24 July 1912, Page 4
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173THE PREMIER BESIEGED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10676, 24 July 1912, Page 4
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