MR W. M. HUGHES

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11436, 5 February 1923, Page 9

MR W. M. HUGHES

COMMENTS ON HIS FALL. PEOPLE TIRED OF DICTATOR. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 4, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 3. The “New York Herald," commenting on Mr Hughes’s resignation, declares: “Tlie fate that attended Mr Lloyd George has overtaken Mr Hughes. The people have grown weary of his forceful, aggressive personality, and are disposed to. question his almost dictatorial proceedings, to which a long term of office with but slender majorities, and the prestige - he acquired in Europe during the war, inclined him. • THE NEW MINISTRY AIR, BRUCE HAS THREE DAYS. By Telegraph'.—Press Assn.—Copyright. SYDNEY; February 3. Tfie newspapers, in leading articles eulogising, the past services of Mr Hughe's to Australia, and in paying tribute to his successful career in the face of adversity, agree that he did l the right thing in tendering his resignation. Air S. M. Bruce has three days in which to form, a Alinistry. The outlook is uncertain whether a Nationalist or a composite Cabinet will be formed, LABOUR DISAPPROVAL By Telegraph.-—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received February 5, 12.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, February 4. Senator Gardiner, Deputy-Leader of the Federal Labour Party, in an interview strongly condemned the action of the Governor-General in entrusting Air Bruce, who is described as “the repretsentative of a discredited remanant of the Nationalist Party,’’ to form a Government. In doing so, and not sending for the Leader of the Opposition, he had departed from the custom, of the century.