PRIME MINISTER ENTERTAINED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 100, 25 April 1912, Page 5

PRIME MINISTER ENTERTAINED.

AUCKLAND, Agril-^o. , Th Clevedon branch of the .Farmers' Union entertained tlie -Hon.' Mr. <-Mackenzie at its annual dinner. !

Mr Alec. Bell (chairman) congratu.iated this Prime Minister on hi&«ileva-i tion. to the highest office. ;

The Hon..Mr Mackenzie said that every member of the new jMim&try nad graduated to his position, an'dj he oommended them as earnest work-' ers, who intended to use their utmost' eridcavoro iv the interests «f the iDgmihion.

Referring to the question of pro-' t/iction raised by a previous 'speaker, who had said that the agriciiltural Industrie* Avere suffering, the Hon.1 Mr Mackenzie said that thero were> nidubfrio-in <x>untries established. »he-' "der .protection that were- producing' as ,&ood :in. article as could he in*-] ported. Ito referred particularly to, the woollen industry. In acknow-i lodging the justice of the grievance^ espressod by settlers in the "blackblocks the Hon. Mr Mackesnaie sug-i pasted that a Rj'stem of light railways might be> an 'effective remedy ifor 'Cheiri dtffioiilties.* ,