“THE MOST ABUSED.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 85, 30 May 1911, Page 5

“THE MOST ABUSED.”

AUCKLAND ADVISED TO KEEP GOING. “Auckland is, I believe, the moat, abused district in New Zealand,” said the chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board (Mr J. H. Gunson) in . proposing the toast of the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. T. Mackenzie) during a harbour excursion the other dayr It. was always, lie said, trying to grab all the plums that it could possibly obtain, and in view ot this he was glad to have the opportunity of showing the Minister what the Board itself was doing. “One likes the spring and go about Auckland,” said Mr Mackenzie in his reply, “even if you are getting the reputation, as Mr Gunson remarked, of trying to get everything you can seize. (Laughter.) I belong to a clan called the Mackenzie, which has the reputation of collaring everything that has four legs, and it is said that, we would take a hay-stack if it had four legs. (Laughter.)“Never you mind what people say about you,” the Minister went on to say; “take everything you can get; you have got the land, you have got the harbour, and if you go on as you are going now you cannot go far wrong.” Mr Glover: It will not bo my fault if we don’t. Mr Mackenzie: No; it will not. If Auckland had many more members in Parliament like. Mr Glover a Minister’s life would not ho worth living. He is always keeping at us in the interests of Auckland.’ (Laughter.)