THE BEST POLICY.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13277, 30 November 1911, Page 3

THE BEST POLICY.

At Timaru the other day Mr. Craigio said: "He supported the present Government because it had fte best policy of any .party in New Zealand. It was not Sir Joseph Ward, or the Mickeiixics, or Sir James Carroll that hs; v. as supporting, but their policy; and he would continue to support it until a better one was offered. (Hear, hear.) The Opposition certainly had no policy. Some people complaiiiod 0} the action of the Prime Minister, iii ".accepting a title, but they should reisirmbcr that the King in conferring this honour .upon him had conferred; ;in honour upon New Zealand, and'if ■Sir Joseph Ward chose to accept, if; ijia.t-WAS his business. (Heat; hear.) They could say what they ',liked, about" Sir "Joseph Ward, bufYid'ongV'cpuld'tlffiy1 that he was a very, able inftiJi j?nel lie was deserving of very great credit for having risen from a telegraph messenger to hold the- 'highest position in the land. (Applause.) Many slanderous statements had been made concerning him, but he (Mr. Craigie) had always found him to be a very (straightforward nnd good-hearted man. (Hear, hear.)" -