LORD RANFURLY'S RETURN TO IRELAND.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 95, 19 October 1904, Page 5

LORD RANFURLY'S RETURN TO IRELAND.

» . REFERENCES TO NEW ZEALAND. SOME UTTERANCES OF THE EXGOVERNOR. THE FISCAL QUESTION. (From Our Own Correspondents.) , LONDON, 17th September. Lord Ranfurly reached his Irish home, Northland House, Dungannon, last Tuesday, after an absence of seven years. His arrival was marked by great rejoicings on the part of the tenants, and the quaint little Tyrone town was prettily decorated. On his arrival at Dungannon large crowds of people assembled and cheered your ex-Governor as he drove from the Royal Station to Northland House. Interviewed by a representative of the press, Lord Ranfurly praised the colonials for their ready response to the call to arms in South Africa. Discussing the fiscal question, he stated that a Bill had received the Royal a3sent last year granting preferential Irnde between the Empire and New Zealand. The Bill -gave a percentage to certain articles only, and was really a temporary measure, but its scope would be extended when there was free trade or anything approaclung it throughout the Empire. It must be clearly understood that free trade within the Empire, so far as the colonies were concerned, could never mean free admission of goods, because for fiscal purposes they must have funds to carry on the government. The Bill was properly described as a Preferential Bill, and at the i present time was conceding an advantage ' of about £60,000 a year to the Empire m \ a whole, an amount which in the course of time would be materially increased. He considered that the country waa capable of tremendous development. Addresses of welcome were presented by the Urban Council of Dungannon and by the Select. Vestry of Dungannon to ! Lord Ranfurly, who assured his heareis ' that the happiest day of the last seven j years to him had been the day when he arrived home again. The years he had | spent abroad w.ere busy years, and dur- j ing those years he had met in nearly ! every part of New Zealand Irishmen who ! were doing well. Regarding his action during the South African War, he said it was not necessary to arouse loyalty, j All the people living in New Zealand called the British Isles the Mother Country, and took the deepest interest in its welfare. When it came to a call to arms j the difficulty was not to get the men to come forward, but to make /a selection from them. His term of office, an easy one in many respects, had been in many other ways exceedingly arduous on account of the vast amount of work to do. But there was one gratifying feature, and that was that the country had been prosperous. That had helped thing 3to go smoothly. When he landed in New Zealand the country was just getting prosperous after bad times ; and as each year followed the other the prosperity advanced, until last year the Budget of the colony had a surplus of something like £400,000, which was always a good sign. It was supposed in this coantTy that the colonies went in for a "borrow and bust" policy; but such was not the case. When people said that New Zealand owed close upon sixty millions sterling that was put down as a terrible debt, but they forgot to subtract twenty millions or more invosted in railways, of which 2400 miles had been constructed. They ajso forgot that those railways were paying, and that they cpuld pay a much larger interest if the Government would allow them to do so. The policy of the colonial Government there had been invaridbly that when ■che railways and other Government institutions plid a certain percentage they should give back to the people any reduction possible in point of fares and charge of merchandise. He had heard it suggested that by doing so they were going to ruin themselves ; but the result had been larger financial returns in spite of those reductions, because by encouraging trade they had been able to improve and increase it. No doubt tho question of the day was the fiscal question. It had been shown that New Zealand welcomed an exchange of hands witu the Mother Country, and wished to trade within the Empire oy the passing of the Preferential Trade Act last session. On behalf of Lady Ranfurly, Lord Ranfurly acknowledged their courteous reference to her service, and assured his hearers that his work would have been of very little effect without her valuable assistance.

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