THE NATIONAL CABINET

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2592, 14 October 1915, Page 9

THE NATIONAL CABINET

"HAS WORKED VERY WELL".

PRIME MINISTER'S OPINION

Some observations on the work of the National Cabinet in the session of Parliament just ended were made bj the Primo Minister to a reporter yesterday. "I think those who have watched the business of the session must have come to the conclusion that the National Cabinet has worked very well indeed," said Mr.•' Massey, "and I knoiv from communications which have reached me from all over New Zealand tliat it lias given satisfaction to the great majority of tho people of the Dominion. When the National Government was established a number of people looked upon it as an experiment which might or might not turn out satisfactorily,, but even those people who were inclined to bo doubtful at the first are satisfied now. Personally, I may say that I am more than pleased. There has been a certain amount of adverse criticism from a few members who do not exactly approve of what has been done, but, speaking for myself as head of the Government, I want to say tJiat tho new members of tho Ministry have done everything that it was possible for them to do, not only in connection with the "business of the session, but also in connection with the administration of tho public affairs generally. There has not been the very slightest friction since tho change was made, and, so far as I am able to judge, the_ present satisfactory condition of affairs will continue as long as the present arrangement lasts.

"It would, in my opinion, not be possible for any party, even with a working majority, to have done justice to the circumstances and conditions that have arisen since the war broke out; fcut with a National Government, party mfluenco has ceased to operate, and all sections of the House have been nble to join in working for the Empire in the most serious crisis that we have ever been called upon to face."