THE PREMIER.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12989, 17 December 1907, Page 9

THE PREMIER.

..v ILLUMINATED ADDHESS A> PKESKNTED(WU«S ASSOCIATION TEI.WJRAM.) WELLINGTON. Deceinlxr 1(5. . n,,, Right Jioti. Sir JoM'pli Ward j!. enterinin.Hl by the Liln-ral and r tour Krderution thw evenmg. Thero large gathrring, including seveJmemlere of l'.rliumcnr. Th, Pr^ • «as presented witi. an ilhinnuaty e ddres*in appreciation of tho work f. ba d dono last session. Tn tho course of bi« reply. Sir Joeeph I rred to tho difficult position occu- • i hv niemheie who came in under tfaS ft "Mho late Mr Kc.ldon. ami them tor their assistant • "'rrving o»t ,lle ol tho lB .rv l» regard to iniant lit<> pro- *"»■ n tho Government wad going to gj.be tho ettorts ol n<rod .u-omen in t f%MT centres oociipied in looking t»r>opl« wh » cOnillJ nOt afford . to •J? for uuna*, and in jr.elnictinx Tho Government would give *°£iel eeßiet#»K» by ftlJocatiiiß JtlOO r Mchof theso centre. "Lh« I* over n--7t hoped, in conjunction with tho ffionTealth Parliament, toestabli,., Ktato cable- agency to supply nows*■*«re in the United with a C 5? record of our industrial social j «n!itical progrt*e, as Now Zealand S tf too'much n<*leet*d for tho uu forty years in that respect. Iho SLW foreshadowed a change in tho Krai extern to enmiro that iho KriS «°uld be fairly represented, that whore thcro was a duplication j ildidatoi in any one party tho Minority representat.ve would upt ehp ■too Premier spoke hopefully on At financial position ot ; tho Dominion lime* of hie recent speeches in ;? k ;.parto ofNewZealand.