SIR JOSEPH WARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13486, 13 May 1907, Page 6

SIR JOSEPH WARD.

HIS MOVEMENTS -AND PLANS.

[FROM OUR OWN- CORRESPONDENT.]

London*, April 5. Sir Joseph, Ward is having a hard time of it, and correspondence has poured upon him to such an extent that in addition to Mr. Hislop, the continuous sen-ices of a shorthand writer have bad to be secured.

Last week-end Eastertide—was spent by Sir Joseph and Lady Ward and Miss Ward", at Warwick, as guests of Sir Montague and Lady Nelson They returned to town on Monday, and went to Hainpstead Heath in the afternoon to see a cockney crowd's bank holiday, and the occasion is said vastly to hare amused him and his party; indeed, Sir Joseph is reported to have said that he would not have missed it for anything. For two hours the New Zealand visitors remained on the Heath.

Yesterday and to-day the New Zealand Premier has attended the Navigation Conference at the Foreign Office. To-night Lord Pirie is to preside at the dinner of the Institute of Marine Engineers at the Hotel Cecil, when Sir Joseph will make a presentation of a gold emblem to Lord Pirie, the presentation being from the Australasian Institute of Marine Engineers. Mr. A. Denny, of Glasgow, was also to be presented with an emblem, but as he will not be able to attend Mr. James Mills will be asked to, accept it on his behalf. The other New Zealand delegates to the conference will be present at the dinner this evening. The fixtures for a day do not give any idea of Sir Joseph Ward's day's work. lie has been all day at the Foreign Office; at four o'clock he attends a reception given by Mr. Llewellyn Smith, secretary of the Board of Trade; at five o'clock he is to be present at another official reception, to-night he will be at the dinner of the marine engineers. Sir Joseph lias been deluged with invitations to speak at political but he has declined all such requests, as lie feels he must not interfere in British politics. He has, however, promised to speak at the Navy League dinner, at which function Mr. Austen Chamberlain, M.P., and Mr. Winston Churchill (Under-Secretary for the Colonies) a.re to speak also. Next Thursday the New Zealand Premier will leave London for Edinburgh where the University will confer upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. From Edinburgh, and at the invitation of the Corporation, he will go to Glasgow to visit that.city, arriving in London again on the following Sunday. Invitations have also been received from Manchester and Belfast. On the 17th Sir Joseph Ward, with the other Premiers, will dine with the Prince of Wales, and afterwards he and Miss Ward will attend a reception given by the Princess of Wales. Later on Sir Joseph is to dine with His Majesty the King The following is a list of Sir Joseph's engagements up to the present: —April 10, reception by the High Commissioner and Mrs. Reeves, at the Westminster Palace Hotel April 15, dinner with Lord Beauchamp and a reception to follow; April 16, City Corporation luncheon and Eighty Club dinner ; April 17, dinner at Marlborough House with H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, and reception to follow; April 18, 1900 Club dinner; April 19, Imperial Industries Club luncheon, Pilgrim's dinner, and reception at Mr. F. Verney's, M.P.: April 20, Sir Henry Camp-bell-Banr.erman's dinner; April 22, Duke of Sutherland's dinner; April 23, Lord Lansdowne's dinner to Canadians, and Lord Carrington's dinner to Australians, a.nd Lady Glencoat's reception; April 24; luncheon at Houses of Parliament, . dinner of Royal Colonial Institute; April 25, dinner of Goldsmiths' Company; April 26, luncheon of Mercers' Company, dinner of National Liberal Club, reception at the residence of Mrs. Stuart; April 29, Lord Derby's dinner, and reception by Duke and Duchess of Sutherland; April 30, Canada Club dinner; May 1, London Chamber of Commerce dinner, luncheon to ladies, British Empire League dinner; May 3, Naval Review at Portsmouth; May 4, Lord Jersey's garden party; May 6, New Zealand reception at Imperial Institute; Franco-British dinner; May 7, Lord Leconfield's dinner and reception ; 'May 8," His Majesty the 1 King's' dinner. Then among engagements with dates not yet fixed, are: —A garden party at Knebworth, a luncheon by Mr. Catlicart Wasoii, M.P., to the colonial-born M.P.'s, and a dinner by Sir Gilbert Parker. . These few fixtures seem sufficient to go on with. Others will doubtless follow.

With reference to Sir Joseph Ward's remark that in New Zealand "we discriminate —for instance we let agricultural implements in free because 1 we want the best makers," Mr. T. W. Dunn writes to the Westminster Gazette: —"But what is it of which the New Zealanders do not desiderate 'the best makers?' Of course they want everything of the best,. and they can get it only by making it themselves or admitting it at their ports. I daresay the Premier would reply, with some inconsistency, that he wants to nurse-the infant , industries of New Zealand, but, for reasons hard to divine, excepts agricultural. implement-making, which is among such industries. He sees, evidently, that to divert! capital and labour from agriculture— the most productive industry of a new country —must delay progress. If he will think again he will see that this holds true of diverting capital and labour to any and every industry which does not, by the excellence and cheapness of its produce, exclude imports, and so protect itself as does agriculture in New Zealand. When by concentrating upon their most remunerative industries a colony grows rich, thenand soon enough, in these days migratory capital and labour —the necessajfy industries, which have been prudently postponed, will transplant' themselves full-grown to soil now ready for them."