MR. MASSEY FULL OF BUSINESS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 181, 16 July 1912, Page 6

MR. MASSEY FULL OF BUSINESS.

CABINET READY FOR THE SESSION. COUNTRY IN FAVOUR OF THE GOVERNMENT. [BY TELEGBAPH —SPECIAL. 1 Wellington, July 16. “We have a large amount of arrears to overtake before we tackle policy’ questions,” said the Prime Minister to your reporter to-day. "We had a long sitting of Cabinet yesterday, and this long sitting ought to enable us to catch up arrears.” Asked as to the resumption of the session, the Prime Minister said he had no doubt that all the necessary work would be ready for submission when Parliament again met. Several Bills were already in stock and others would be ready in due course. He was prepared for tiie usual debate on the Financial Statement, which woud contain the policy of the new Government. He did not anticipate that the troubles to be met with would be more than the average, in any’ case lie did not intend to go in for late sittings. There would be a certain amount of legislative work allocated to the session, and that work would be got through.

“There is no doubt about the feeling of the country in favour of the Government,” he went on to say. “I have just returned from a private visit to my home in the North, and so far as is possible for anybody to judge, public feeling is decidedly in favour of the Government being afforded the opportunity of giving legislative effect to its proposals.”