BETTER WORKING PROSPECTS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 117, 20 May 1930, Page 10

BETTER WORKING PROSPECTS

The member for' Gisborne, Mr. W. D. Lysnar (Eeform) expressed the opinion in Gisborne that Sir Joseph Ward's re--signation' will give his party ■ a better prospect of working successfully in the face of thcdiffieulties that confront the Doininiou and tlic Government to-day. Some of. Sir Joseph" Ward's ideas, he remarked, were out of date, and not applicable to present-day conditions. He .was strongly; saturated jyitb. cpiicep-

tions of long standing, which, in the opinion of many, wero not practical in the field of-latter-day politics and government, and which the party, to which he belonged would not try to force on the country if it had a free hand. "I Will look for more successful efforts on the part of the United Party in the future," Mr. Lysnar commented. While emphasising the sympathetic feeling that everyone entertained toward Sir Joseph Ward in respect of his regrettable illness, Mr. Lysuar nevertheless pointed out that the Dominion was faced with a position so serious as to make it imperative that the man at the head of affairs should be capable of grappling with all phases of any question that might arise. All parties had been most sympathetic towards Sir Joseph, but there was no doubt the time was coming when feelings would have been accentuated had not Sir Joseph taken the stop of resigning, ___