MR. MASSEY AND SIR JOSEPH WARD
TWO INTERVIEWS. En Route, June 5. Mr. W. P. Massey (Prime Minister of New Zealand), in aj> interview, said he believed that conscription would pass at the next referendum in Australia. Regarding the consolidation of the Empire, he believed that'' it would bo better to proceed upon sentimental lines iha.ii upon a too rigid organisation savouring of Germanism. With regard to the future of New Zealand, Canada, Australia, and Africa, they had not overlooked anything concerning their common interests. Sir Joseph Ward (Now Zealand Finance Minister) said that it was of the first importance that Samoa should remain British territory. Britain could easily financo the war for another fivo years, but the accession of the United States had increased that, period. He anticipated considerable immigration to New Zealand as tlio result of (he demobilisation of the armies. A notable change in Britain was 'the disappearance of class bitterness and the reduction of drunken-ness—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■!
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3104, 7 June 1917, Page 7
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