AN OLD CAMPAIGNER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19696, 25 January 1926, Page 10

AN OLD CAMPAIGNER.

POLITICAL HELMSMAN'S VISIT. MB STACB LLOYD. After two years's strenuous political campaign, Mr Stace Lloyd, organiser of the iNlational Association of New South Wales, ia X aying a recuperative visit to this great little place on the other 3ide. Mr Lloyd has been organiser of the Liberal and National Jfarty for 25 years. This is his first visit to iNew Zealand, and he states that he is struck by the atmosphere of contentment that exists in Dunedin, more particularly in the suburban area. It is a fine city, he thinks, with an excellent tram service, and there is evidence of great prosperity. Mr Lloyd added that he had had the pleasure of being the guest of the .Nurserymen's Association on a tour around the city's environs, "Jb'roin Mount Cargill," he said, "is the most wonderful view I have seen in the whole world. In the afternoon Mr Tannook took me to the forest reserves, which were a revelation to me. They will prove of inestimable value to this district in the years to come." DUNEDIN'S ENTERPRISE. The Exhibition, too, compared very favourably in Mr Lloyd's opinion, with many others he had seen in i\ew South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. It reflected gTeat credit upon the management and the enterprise of the people ot DulTedm, and he was surprised to see that the city was able to manaufacture so many of its local requirements. The New Zealand Government Court was a most interesting one, and from an educative standpoint it. was of untold value to the rising generation of this great Dominion. He wafs also pleased to notice that the primary producer was making a special effort to mantain his prestige in the markets of the world. .'FEDERAL POLITICS. Mr Lloyd was persuaded to speak on his own subject, politics. "We are passing through a very important crisis in New South Wales," he said. "The Labour Party is making strenuous efforts to abolish the Upper House, for which they have not received a mandate from the people, because it was not embodied in the policy speech of Mr Lang, who was then the Leader of the Opposition. The Labour Government, is dominated by a small irresponsible coterie outside Parliament, and it must do as it ia told. Indignation meetings against the abolition of the Upper House are now being held all over New South Wales. Mr Lloyd went on to say that the Labour Party, as constituted to-day in New South Wales, and for that matter in the Commonwealth in general, was not of the same type as of old, when there were euch men as the Hon. W. A. Holman, Mr Chris Watson (exPrime Minister), and Mr James M'Gowan. The party was dominated by an extreme faction to the detriment of good constitutional government. "We have just had a splendid victory in Federal politics,' he added, "as the result of an appeal to the people by Mr Bruce, the Prime Minister, for the maintenance of our constitutional rights and privileges. The effect was that not one Labour senator was returned from any State in the Comimonwealth. Parliament ia now sitting in Melbourne, and the Government will carry out its pledges. If Mr Lang appeals to the people for the abolition of the \ Upper House the National Party will score a I victory for the maintenance of it.