POLITICAL OUTLOOK

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1924, Page 6

POLITICAL OUTLOOK

MR. MASSEYs ON THE POSITION

MAY BE AN ELECTION.

(BI TELEGRAPH.—StECIAI TO THI POST.)

INVERCAEGILL, This Day. Speaking at Mataura Island yesterday the Prime Minister briefly referred to the political situation in Britain and other parts of the Empire. Mr. Massey said they would have noticed by the paper that day that Parliament at Home was faqed with a political crisis. He did I not "think, however, that it was any use going back to another election in .'Britain, because he did not think they could get anything better than what they had now. He thought that there would -be a repetition of three months ago; they could not change .the opinions of the people in a few months. Mr. xMassey also touched briefly' on '■ the situation, in South Africa, and said that judging by events in other"'countries of the ■ Empire they might have an election very soon in New Zealand. " He was not speaking from inside information, but judging by- the amount of unrest m ■ the political situation in other countries ,and also in tJieir own. they might have-one. - "I'm not afraid of it," concluded the Premier; m his characteristic fashion, 'and I'm fully, prepared to give an ac-count-of my stewardship.. 1 know the country doesn't want an election, and I m not going to force on e on the country:" . . . . •