BUSINESS MEN'S CABINET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 181, 30 January 1912, Page 8

BUSINESS MEN'S CABINET.

MR. MASSEY'S CHANCEL Speaking at Winton last Wednesday night, at; the social tendered to Mr. J. R. Hamilton) the unsuccessful candidate for Awarua, Mr. G. J. Anderson, M.P., said that unless the Reform Party, when it took over the management, administered the law in a businesslike way, the Labor Party would come in and both the other parties would be swept out of existence. Mr. Massey had attained an end for which he had fought for nearly twenty years. The men wanted in his Cabinet were not theorists, but men prepared to deal with the affairs of the country in a businesslike way. He' had the opportunity of filling his Cabinet with such men, for he had a number of | them in his party. The gentlemen elected in the North Island were good, commonsense business men. He was not going to refer to the South Island members, because they might think it was a matter of self-praise; but there was an opportunity of making a Cabinet of business men, men prepared to place the interests of the country before anything else, and if Mr. Massey formed that Cabinet with regard to geographical position, and carried out what he (Mr. Anderson) had suggested, he was satisfied the Reform Party would hold the Treasury benches for years.