MR MASSEY’S ENGLISH VISIT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19048, 19 December 1923, Page 6

MR MASSEY’S ENGLISH VISIT.

Now at sea on his return voyage from England to New Zealand via the United States and Canada, Mr Massey will perhaps find in the intervals of ocean travel welcome opportunities for repose, both physical and mental. During the two and a-ha!f months of his sojourn in the Old Country he has been leading

the strenuous life. The business of the Imperial Conference which called him so many thousand miles has by no means comprehended all his activities. The Conference disposed of, Mr Massey still lived laborious days, like the energetic Prime Minister he is, and the record of his progress has been watched with interest, mingled perhaps with amazement, from this end of the world. Undoubtedly he has had a very busy time. The proof of the value of the conference of Empire statesmen will have to be provided later on, when it is possible to see what the results are to be. Apart from his share in the proceedings of the Conference Mr Massey’s activities on behalf of the interests of the dominion have been as extensive as the time at his 'disposal has permitted. He has been gathering first-hand impressions of the industrial conditions at .Home, inquiring into matters of special importance to New Zealand, interviewing here and negotiating there, and, as an honoured guest and representative of the Empire overseas, occupying a prominent role at many functions at which he has been expected to utter words of moment and wisdom. Mr Massey has played the part exceedingly well. The dominion may recognise the fact with quiet satisfaction, not untinged with pride. He leaves behind him in England an excellent impression—that bf a man whose sterling qualities of heart and head are entitled to respect and admiration. He has been a capital publicity agent for the dominion. This country will derive the benefit of being represented by him at Home in this prominent way even for so brief a period, and we may assured that Mr Massey has benefited personally by his experiences since he left the dominion, for he is the type of man, as he has shown in the past, upon whom opportunities for enlargement of vision are never wasted. It will be with increased stature, we have no doubt, that he will return to his own people.