Page 7 Advertisements Column 2

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 27 February 1924, Page 7

AH must agree.that in London Mr. Massey so worthily and truly represented this Dominion that he will return here with.greatly strengthened claims for continuance in office. Were it to bo _ decided otherwise th© people of Britain, should they be able to spare attention from their own political crisis, would surely declare that the people of New Zealand must be uncertain, coy, and hard to please, should Mr Massey's reward for such signal service as he has rendered to New Zealand and the Empire be replacement by, say, Mr "Wilford or Mr Holland. The former is a sound enough,'lmperialist, it is true, but hardly, possessed, of th© robust and practical energy which, according to Sir William Coates, president of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce, has made New Zealand, th© Empire, and the Allies permanent debtors-to Mr Massey; while, as for. Mr Holland, his Imperialism, which not so very long ago could fairly be described as minus quantity as measured by th© usually accepted definition of the term, has now only developed to the somewhat -nebulous point which would only^ support Stateaided immigration—an important, even a vital, constituent of th© scheme for th© distribution of population within th© Empire—on preliminary conditions .so rigid as to. be quit© impracticable.—• Dunedin Evening St&v.