A SPLENDID HOLIDAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 26, 1 February 1928, Page 10

A SPLENDID HOLIDAY.

BUT NO SPEECHES. I* "j SAYS THE HON. T. R. BAVIN. ■ e; -I [j NEW ZEALAND INTEREST IX -j AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS. 1 r ' f. (Kv Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") j WELLINGTON, Tuesday. [>• 1 lie Hon. T. R. Bavin, New South Ij Wales Premier, is positively declining to 11 make speeches on serious subjects while , he is enjoying his New Zealand holiday. As a Rotarian he met members of the Wellington Rotary Club at their usual I weekly luncheon, and got nearest to j. speech-making during his visit. Answering a warm welcome, lie deli dared that he was having a splendid holiday, and had almost forgotten how ? j to make a speech. Oue of his welcomes ? | had mentioned Dean " Inge's caustic ! statement about political reformers.' sjtliat the world would probably have f: 500.000 years in which to see whether 1 , they were right. "Possibly," said MrJ i Bavin, "that accounts for my holding an I honourable position in my State. , | people realise that at any rate they will! . have half a million years after 1* have! gone in which to put things right."! , . Wellington's Mayor being on his right! hand, the visiting Premier solemnlvi assured him that he had not come to! New Zealand with the object of imitat-i , tog the New South Wales Government' ], in susj>ending the Corporation of New! 1 Zealand's capital. He was glad to make! this public intimation. Trade Relations. Interviewed in Wellington, Mr. Bavin i touched briefly upon the question of* | reciprocal trade between Australia and I New Zealand. He said lie did not wish, j to enter deeply into the subject of tarili , treaties, which was really the j of the Federal Government and under discussion at tho moment. He was quite 1 sure, however, that there were great possibilities of a useful interchange of;' goods between New* Zealand and the ! Commonwealth which would benefit both countries, particularly in certain products which were not common to both. ' He hoped that everything that could be \ done to encourage trade between Aus- ' tralia and New Zealand would be done. "I have been struck with the extent to which people in New Zealand are inter-' ested in Australian affairs. I refer more! i especially to our elections, and with thej knowledge they have of the general out- ■ line of political historv in Australia ' , particularly in New South Wale*. It i--1 extraordinary to find what a larae amount of interest was evinced in the i last election. The present condition oft affairs in the State is, of course, fromU my point ot view, satisfactory. We t 'were returned with a working majority!

fHßwnnwDimnr.wiiiwwa!Bß —■t-ihiittiiiiipim to restore sound and sane government. e have already bad one session, durin" winch we passed all legislation that wc tiied to pass, and which was most urgent. Next session will be the real working session, in which we have to undertake the business of reforming the Legislative Council, and of effecting 'changes in the Governmental finance system, so lar as the method of keeping public accounts is concerned."' Refor*mation of tlie Legislative Council. Mr. Ba\ in stated, will not be recognised as a party matter, because it is of vital importance to all parties, and whatever legislation on the subject is parsed next session will l, c submitted to a rcferenuuiii of tbe electors.