MR. MASSEY'S ILLNESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18996, 18 April 1925, Page 8

MR. MASSEY'S ILLNESS.

That the Government should proceed on tho principle of "business as usual," doing the country's work and allowing nothing to stand in the way of the progress of the Dominion —in these phrases a member of tho Cabinet has conveyed the Prime Minister's wish in the untoward conditions created by his illness. They, are phrases characteristic of Mr. Massey. His own unwearying application to national business has become a splendid commonplace whereyer the Dominion's politics have mention, and the whole country well knows that ho would ask from his colleagues a practical forgetfulness of his sore trouble and an absorption in their daily duty. In that spirit of service he has always carried his responsibilities. * Now that he is stricken it is good to know that his habitual courage and determination mark his bearing, and this is some comfort to tho great company whose thoughts turn often to his sickroom. Throughout these weeks of anxiety messages of goodwill, from every section of the community, have crowded to that room, and they multiply daily, in token of a universal concern. Mr. Massey may, in effect, ask bravely to be forgotten in the urgency of the work that has everywhere to be done, in Cabinet and out of it; but there can be none so preoccupied, however impelling his or her task, as to be unmindful of his trial and need.