COMPLIMENTING A MINISTER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 88, 2 June 1911, Page 4

COMPLIMENTING A MINISTER.

While in the north, after the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture had inspected the fruit farms at the Wacrcnga Experimental Kami, some speeches

wo tv at tt !. 11! v inf; : .ml gal boring prior lv the dcpirtmo nf the Au. Irl.iiwl visitors. i ■ r.p •ak.iig lo the torsi «i' ike 1 ioi*. I. Mack aa: ie, an .lei iiti l ' ia: li:i;itt'i.i.irv i; i ‘\■ 10l tiu. .Midst.'! - , Mr. R. C. Bruce, the wellknown Rangitikd settler and' a follower ol Sir Harr' - Atkinson in isis day, said all Ids sympathies wore with Mr. Mackenzie in the very strenuous position he occupied. In making Cite agricultural sem'eo cl’ t!io country wiiat it should ho ho was rendering t \ coman service. It was good to see him bringing ioe Government a.ad the Farmers into touch with each other, a matter oF the very greatest imp irtaneo. So Far Mr. Mackenzie haul boon very successful in that connection. He was proud to think ho had been an intimate Friend oF the Minister For the last live and twenty years. He had never known him go hack on his Friends or his principles. Mr. .Mackenzie had never relinquished any principle lie came into the House witn. He hoped ho would he long spared to the Dominion. Mr. Bruce concluded by expressing the hope that the Farmers oF New Zealand would endeavour in the Future to get more in touch with the Government and the Department of Agriculture than they had been in the must.