ATKINSON'S HEROIC METHODS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 57, 8 March 1921, Page 9

ATKINSON'S HEROIC METHODS.

',To ihe Editor.) >;:-. *i ci: correspondent 'LfberaJ." jiizj.-t* l '-' at ' s*n writing conterap- I -.-lously of Sir Harry Atkinson. Can •' ~-n thinking man write otherwise of an Adminl-tration which brought this fair , ,-iint.-y to such k pass that 16.000 of us had t-i leive New Zealand in starch of j work* No matter what service Sir I llarri rendered to New Zealand, he d:d j mere than his share to oause the exodus ailuded to. lie was only a class legis- '.■*.--: ncr wa.s h.e a true statesman be- I , iiisc if he had been he would never ' -.!v.- I-t the country come to a pass that j h» had any need to apply any dra_s*iie j i: ' unpopular methods. *as ' Liberal" , -ii--. We old hands are proud of I -••ir han.i.work in building up New Zea- I and to what it is. and we can see and .'-.-a.I the time app onchinc fast when I \t'. : .--.m's successors will hring this! ■oiintry to a worse pa?,. ;han Sir Harry j .-.er -::-l. Tbo httter had not the op- i ••ortunin M-.aii.-e iic had an overpower- ■•_'\ strong democrat in his way in : ; ■ - Urorge Grey, which the 'lurWt Hon. ; ';-. M.issey has not. —1 am. etc.. |