DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 98, 25 April 1912, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

(TMr Press Association.) Hamilton, April 24

Interviewed by a Waikato 'limes representatives to-day cm the In time leadership, the Prime Minister said that he could not see that the people were looking to Mr Massey at all. The Opposition had succeeded in discrediting the former Liberal leader, but it by no means followed that the effects of their methods against Sir Joseph Ware! implied that the country wanted Mr Massey to be entrusted with the control of the destinies of the Dominion. Mr Massey’s captains and generals had won many lights in the last campaign, which was bungled by their leader. The length of time the present Government would remain in office was for tiie House to say. If the present favourable feeling met with by Ministers throughout the Dominion continued, it would be reflected when Parliament met. The Prime Minister made it quite clear that the Government would uso no political legerdemain to secure a majority. The country was Liberal at heart, and was looking for guidance on sound, economic and progressive lines. His party met these reasonable aspirations. There could be no doubt of its future. Wanganui, April 24. The Education Board carried the following resolution : ‘‘That this Board is satisfied, upon inquiry that no serious fault can be found with the methods of the orgamsing inspector, who is admitted by the teachers to bo of groat assistance to them in their work, and to be enthusiastic in his desire to improve the condition of the schools, but that he has unconsciously been injudicious in some of his methods in his'anxiety to get better results in too short a period of time.” I Echoes of the Stagpole case were ■heard at the Education Board’s meeting this evening. It w r as resolved that, in reply to a resolution of the New Zealand Institute, the Board points out (1) 'that while the resolution purports to be a reply to the board’s resolution of March 25th, it ignores that portion of it which states that Mr. Parkinson informed Inspectors Braik, Strong, Milne, and Stewart that information given by them would be confidential, „and . that, that pledge was broken ; (2) that the ■ executive's resolution is contrary to fact when it States (a) that the correspondence sent to Mr. Parkinson was not under seal of cqnftdenco, as the executive’s representative produced in the teacher’s Appeal Court a covering letter from Mr • Pirslni • cxjjressly stating to the coritrary; (b) that the institute was told in the said Court that inspectors’ official reports were valueless, and of no account (no such statement having been made) •’■(c) Unit no breach of the regulations by the chairman or any member of the board ivas either proved or admitted, as the. only regulation on the subject refers to correspondence with the board and not with individual members of the board, and that Parkinson was given every opportunity to explain liis breach of confidence in the witness-box, but fenced with questions, and evidently recognised that bis actions did not come in the ordinary code of those of a man occupying a responsible position. Hamilton, April 25.

Replying,to a -deputation of sMticrs of the TcAwarnUtu dir/trict for a trial survey of a'line from 1 e Awamiitu 1o Putaruru, the Premier said that at present no money was available for such work. Last election cue of tinblackest charges levelled against, the Ward Government was that of borrowing. The Government had been blackguarded and abused from one end of the country to the other. Tf last election could be taken as an indication of the opinion of the people there would be no money for constructing railways. It was easy to -appease the outcry against reckless borrowing by ceasing to borrow. If people did not await developments they would not he given. Personally, he was in favour of progress; but if there was no money the land could not he farmed. He concluded by saying that political byprocrisy must cease.