SIR JAMES CARROLL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 119, 12 July 1911, Page 3

SIR JAMES CARROLL.

Commenting upon Sir James Carroll’s speech at Christchurch, the Lyttelton “Times” remarks ;• —“The Opposition. . . thought. That Sir James Carroll had no idea outside the Native Department, it imagined that during the Crime Ministei s absence there would be no one to meet its platform campaign and that the Act mg-Crime Minister would calmly watch it sowing tares in the Liberal wheat. Perhaps it half believed its own liotions concerning the character of the Minister. it has discovered its blunder. The Minister’s tour inis had the eject of enormously strengthening the Liberal position in tiie South Island; it has cleared away misunderstandings ami wrong impressions. Knowing nothing ox the native question, t.no southerners have been inclined to believe that perhaps Mr Massey’s attacks on the Native Department’s administration had some foundation in fact. They did not know the Minister and they did not know the subject. Hut the Minister has at length enlightened them and they have found that the allegations of the Opposition regarding native affairs arc as groundless as are the Opposition’s allegations regard "v; general politics. The utter hollowness of Lie Opposition case has been exposed now in all directions, and, having seen and heard the man lor themselves, the people have fou id how mean and unworthy were the recent attacks upon him. The title that has beer, conferred upon Sir James is the recognition of earnest an ! invaluable liihbur in the public som'ice. It it Aln'e to The Minister's policy that there 1 halve 1 been no Jscrio.'s native difficulties .dll these yea(fs, ami it is due to his policy and administration that so' tremendous an advance Ir.-.s been made not merely in the settlement of the 'questions of ‘nati/e land hut also in tin- improvement of the whole tone of Maori life. : it is snieiv a credit to himself and to his mother’s race that the son oi a Maori met her should to-day be ‘the actinglie i .1 of the adinmisiration of a gru.t an.l prosperous British colony, and »t is all ti e more to Sir James’s crodi' t'iat he- has won that pAvTion by Ins earnest labour and 1 is native worth.’