RE SIR JOSEPH WARD'S POLITICAL ACTION AND POLICY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 8, 4 October 1919, Page 4

RE SIR JOSEPH WARD'S POLITICAL ACTION AND POLICY

gi r —Would you allow me space to ask a few questions on the above subject? . ■ » • ' ■ "1. Eo nationalising of Hie coaH mines: 'Has there been a ■ smaller ■ percentage of strikes and disputes in 'State mines than . privately-owned ones? '■ 2. Who are the people that are agiiatia» most for nationalisation? Have they shown themselves to be the loyal friends of country and Empire? ' -3. Are they assisting by deeds and actions in the industrial progress of the whole Dominion? • ' ■ „ , . 4. Was Sir Joseph Ward doing his duty to the country by resigning from "the National Ministry at the most critical time that he could select? • 5. Would it not have- been more creditable, td have stayed in the Ministry and assisted to put the affairs of tho country, in proper order after the war? 6 Does not the country need at the present time a Ministry and M.P. s who will'do their host for its interest, and not for self and party? 7. If Sir Joseph Ward's policy is so beneficial to the country, why did he not remain in the Ministry and assist in carrying it out? 8. Does it not seem ridiculous for him 'to make these proposals now? Has ho not had his own part in the management of the country this last four years, and is he not. responsible with the others for its management?—l am, etc., A LOYAL BRITISHER, \ Wellington, September 28.