AUCKLAND'S "GO."

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14690, 26 May 1911, Page 8

AUCKLAND'S "GO."

A MINISTER'S ADVICE.

"TAKE EVERYTHING YOU CAN

GET."

"Aucklant) is, I believe, the most abused district in New Zealand," said the chairman of the Harbour Board (Mr. J. H, Gunson) in proposing the toast of tho Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. T. Mackenzie), during the harbour excursion yesterday. "It was always," he remarked, "trying to grab all tho plums that it could possibly obtain, and in view of this ho was glad to have tho opportunity of showing tho Minister what the Board itself was doing." '

"One likes tho spring and go about Auckland," said Mr. Mackenzie, in the course of his reply, "and I advise you to keep going, .even if you are getting the reputation, as Mr. Gunson remarked, of trying to get everything you can seize. "(Laughter.) I belong to a dan called the Mackenzie, which has the reputation of collaring everything that has four legs, and it is said that wo would take a haystack if it had four legs. (Laughter.) Never you mind what people say about you," tho Minister went on to say; "take everything you can get. You have got the land ; you have got tho harbour, and if you go on as you are going now, you cannot go far wrong."

Mr. Glover : It will not be my fault if wo don't. (Laughter.)

Mr. Mackenzie: No, it will not! If Auckland had many more members in Parliament like Mr. Glover, a Minister's life would not be worth living. He is always keeping at us in the interests of Auckland. (Laughter.)