NATIONAL CABINET PROPOSAL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13824, 20 July 1915, Page 6

NATIONAL CABINET PROPOSAL.

ATTITUDE OF THE LIBERAL SIDE

(From our own Correspondent.)

Christchurch, July 19. In an interview to-day, Sir Joseph Ward remarked: '"'There'is positively no foundaion in fact for the suggestion that the difficulties in the way of forming a. national Cabinet are due to the men upon the Liberal sido being anxious for portfolios. There has never been any suggestion or discussion of portfolios either between Mi Massey and myself or between members of the party and myself. Any assertion which might be framed upon a basis of that sort is incorrect. I think it only right to the members of the Opposition that I should say that I have been personally surprised at the abnegation of the whole of the members of our party in discussing the possibilities of a national Cabinet. Nothing of a personal nature has cropped up in any discussion of the question."