HON. T. MACKENZIE

Southland Times, Issue 14095, 29 April 1909, Page 5

HON. T. MACKENZIE

VISITS OWAKA. (Per United Press Association.) , OWAKA, April 23. To-day the Hon. T. MacKcuzio, AliuHer of Agriculture, industry and .■(jurists Rcsoits, in response la an • nvitatiou from the settlers, visited ./waka. and proceeded by road and ivor to tho various places of scenic •.ud industrial interest m the noighlourlicod, lecciving a few deputations m local ii.ii.-ori on route, and planting .emra tm-..-, in what is to ne known as ihe MacKcr.xie belt at the Pouuawea 1 e.nuain. In the evening a social was held in amour of mo MacKeuzie’s elevation .Ministerial rank, the guest being •rayevt to '.is sea. by 1-liguiuud pipers, i’lic chairman. in his opening remarks, vfciTing to Mr MaeKenzie’s energy uid übiquity, said that he would ••atluT be that gciuiomau’s Bible than :1s horse. —-Mr Anderson, member for Mauiura, in liio conrso of a forcible ,cecii, soul that die man who said hat tills country should not be deluded to tue last shilling and tho last a,an was a traitor. Mu hoped, during the life of the present Par'lament, tc c such steps taken as would prerout the possibility of German or rauauese violating our shores.—The .Minister confined himself mainly to ..vueralities, mentioning the need for aefeuce, tile source of wealth that the '■'ourist Department was likely to bo, mrl the necessity for retrenchment, which the Government had resolved to face boldly.