WAIKATO RIVER INSPECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1918, Page 6

WAIKATO RIVER INSPECTION.

(Continued from page 9.) CAMBRIDGE., this day. Prior to the departure of the launch from Cambridge, Mr Young, M.P. for Waikato, introduced Mr Wilford to the gathering of Cambridge people who.had come to -witness, the departure of the river inspection company. Replying, Mr- Wilford said that it was his "first" visit to Cambridge, and he had no idea that they had such a progressive and prosperous town there. THE RIVER A NATIONAL QUESTION. It Tvae not the time to make a speech on the question of the improvement of tie Waikato River. That was a matter he was going to talk about on Friday night -when he had inspected the river and made himself acquainted with the conditions. This, however, he -would say,. that the - matter was of sufficient importance to be considered as of national and not merely of local interest, and that was the view the Govern- j flient would take of. it. ~ I SUSPENSION OF PARTY WARFARE.! He said that the Government of this country was now a national and not a party one, and that the members of the Cabinet had only one idea, and that was to work unitedly in the interests I of the country and the Empire. No .one j could s ay'for certain what would! happen after the war, but he doubted! very much if they would ever go back to the old state of party strife and bickering. v