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TELEGRAMS PREMIER IN TARANAKI.

THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY. (Per Press Association ELTHAM, April 10. The Prime Minister and the Hon G. W. Russell were entertained at a complimentary social to-night in the Town Hall, this being Mr Mackenzie's first appearance in the district since his elevation to office. The attendance numbered four hundred, a large proportion being ladies." The proceedings were enthusiastic. Mr Mackenzie was greeted with prolonged cheers on entering the hall headed by pipers. The toast of ' 'Parliament" was proposed by Mr W. T. Jennings ex-M.P. for Taumaruriui and responded to by the Hon G. W. Russell somewhat on the lines of his recent addresses. He said the policy of the Government would be stated in due course, .but those who knew the programme of the Liberal party for twenty years had no need to ask what that policy would be The Opposition now said they did not object to the Liberal legislation, but to its administration; but the Liberals said they would not trust the adnunis- \ tration of Liberal laws to those who systematically opposed them. Grapes did not grow off thorns, nor figs from thistles. The Liberal party had got a policy, and they meant to keep to. Hon T. Mackenzie responding to the "Coast of the guest of the evening, followed on the lines of his previous speeches lately. He said that Sir Joseph Ward's enemies' had. endeavoured to discredit him for his idea of an Imperial Council, but something of that sort must become the law of the Empire. They wanted one king, one navy, one Empire, and they must allow the ideals and aspirations of the farreaching Dominions to come before a common Imperial Council. The time would come when the country would again call for Sir Joseph Ward's services. He (Mr Mackenzie) stepped into the breach, and they would hold the breach. Referring to the Local Government Act, the Premier said he considered that the activities of local bodies should be enlarged and their revenues assured. They were going to endeavour to win the esteem of the people by energetic settlement. It was not so much a question of tenures as of territory. Lands for settlement had been too' long a shuttlecock of parties. The Government intended to open up all the available lands and break up the big estates for settlement and increase the graduated tax. They were going to show the farmer that the record of twenty years would be continued, and he would not be over-bur-dened with taxation. Their intention was to go in for progressive settlement, agricultural development, the upbuilding of the social and material welfare, and extending the opportunities of every deserving man and woman, and still add to the foundations which the Liberal party had so well laid. .

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Grey River Argus, 11 April 1912, Page 6

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TELEGRAMS PREMIER IN TARANAKI. Grey River Argus, 11 April 1912, Page 6

TELEGRAMS PREMIER IN TARANAKI. Grey River Argus, 11 April 1912, Page 6

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