LONDON NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 11 October 1916, Page 5

LONDON NEWS.

MR MASSEY AND SIR JOSEPH WARD.

"SWAMPED BY STREAM OF

VISITORS."

APPRECIATIVE PRESS REFER-

ENCES.

• LONDON, Oct. 10. Mr Massey and^Sir Joseph Ward had a host of callers. Mr Bonar Law, in an hour's visit, discussed various subjects. The Empire Parliamentary Association will entertain the visitors at the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr Bonar Law presiding., The Pall Mall Gazette says there are no favorites in the Imperial family, but if there were we should require long odds against New Zealand. Her quiet spontaneousness always aroused our admiration and gratification/for it embodies a new spirit of progress at its best and worthiest. We hear in New Zealand the clearest echo of the British spirit, and if Britain could transform itself into a new country of pioneers, New Zealand would be accepted by the majority as a model. The Daily Telegraph, in a column article_ on the mission of Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward, says they ar© in danger of being swamped by a stream of "visitors and buried by an avalanche of correspondence. Only a division of work enables them to attend to their multifarious engagements.! -Sir. Joseph. Ward has been long known in Britain as an ardent Imperialist, and Mr Massey bears a more than passing resemblance to the late Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. His intellect is of the practical order, which is essential to grappling with the problems of a young and vigorous community. Interviewed, Mr Massey said New Zealand would never be satisfied with a premature -peace, German militarism must be utterly and finally crushed; otherwise the sacrifices would have been in vain. "I am heartily in agreement with the- tone and' spirit of Mr Lloyd George's message to the American press. - We must carry on to the end and brook n 6 interference on the part of possibly self-interested neutrals. New Zealand's death roll is very sad, but very glorious. There is hardly a family in the land that is not represented at the front. Remembering this, we feel it is due to their memory that the sacrifice*i should not be made in vain."

Mr Massey' explained the Military Service Bill and the. methods of recruiting, as well as the scheme for placing ex-sokliers on the land. He added: "The v^ar Jias widened and illumined our conceptions of the possibilities of Empire, and has opened up a vista of a greater, a more glorious and more united Empire. A self-con-tained Empire should be our goal." Sir Joseph Ward, on being interviewed, said: "Having met representative men, I have no reason to modify my impression that England is making tremendous war efforts. The Allies are now on top, arid it is reasonable to expect a successful conclusion within twelve months."