MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17401, 11 March 1922, Page 10

MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS.

* (pbbss association telegram.) GRErMOUTH, March 10. The Hon. J. G. Coates, accompanied by Mi- H. E. Holland, M.P., arrived here at 8 o'clock to-night, after travelling from Westport via Barrytown, wer the coastal route. The party motored to Brighton, and then went on horseback to .runakaiki, where they saw the noted blowhole. Deputations urged the completion of the road from Barrytown to Westport. Mr Coates gave a sympathetic reply. The Minister visit 9 Lake Moana district to-morrow, and then goes from Hokitika to the far south, and over the Haaat Pass to Canterbury,

Nowaday# on 9 Jhoese between being t„ J?"* a mountebank Z hke an eminent Ame«ca n ° y Professor Irvine Ba qTlOte * h £• *> be a mossback; and it ~ °*> to therefore, to discover f™ pleasi »g, of a Domain Board of the members of the R ft „ < * one honourable order H ® 5 U ° ( "some of the native *h v , ned th »t cleared away became to illicit use by some pipl* .. propounded that "the rZ!' &nd >* guardians of the nil " 1 W€t * »0t should not have to sacrifiL wl on that account." H PI Jl* gawJ e« mossback-the man who'L realised that it i. ? ot J* to guard the public's mofaut'S become oonspwuons f or what w 6 backs call bustling other peop'e, but what tfe Ej? know is publicspirited activity to\£ mossback "a primrose with a X nm (I prefer Butler's pervert adehghtful thing, and a grove of tij one of the consolations of lif e modern reformers know bettei' ww a primrose means to them 'n O J knows, but a grove of trees— H.' was a time, perhaps, when even tW people could say:

Tha earth, and every common right lome did sewn Apparell'd in celestial light Tho glory and tha fieshnM* ol t dma. But now they know that & groft is a, sink of iniquity—PhyllU Oorydon, Amaryllis in the abode, all that. We mosabackt, one feat*, can do little against the reformtti who have resolred that to abolish i tt , morality you must abolish grovej ud shrubberies. For what can we oß tf ' as an alternative except the abolition of men and women P And would stand that.

Since he gave his celebrated itoiti. tion of a pendulum at Petone, Mr Wil. ford has not been seen on the pltf. form. That performance, it wm un . derstood, was to herald a whirlwind tour, and the . local Ldbernls are da. appointed that the pendulum ihould have stopped so suddenly. Their loctl journal, I am told, keeps en doing 1U beat, like the pianist, but the faithful are murmuring "Toujours perdrir," They are beginning to feel concerning Liberalism as expounded from, their local pulpit what the libellous Bngllah. man felt concerning New Zealand when he wrote Home that it was "mlid, mutton, and monotony." . Mr "Wilford would at least be a change. Tii# tea. porary euspeneion of the greit cam*, paign is possibly duo to the impending re-appearance of Sir Joseph Ward, which is spoken of with some confidence by the Wellington and Imretcargill organs of the party. Sir Joseph, it 11 said, is to take over the leadership, and the name of the party is to be changed again. This grows bewilderlnj. One wonders that some advertisinj agency has iot"been enterprising eflougi to persuade the various leaders to hold a competition, awarding & prue for the best name suggested. It may be Baid that tl(e name and style of the. Party is the/' Party's own affair. But this is not true, The publio has a right to know the precise name chosen by the impending, deceased for hia coffin plate.