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Observer, Volume XL, Issue 11, 15 November 1919, Page 30

They should convince Irishmen of all classes that England is earnestly desirous of settling the Irish question by giving the people the fullest possible measure of self-government or Home Rule. The weakness of the scheme, indeed of all schemes for the government of Ireland, is that it does not, and cannot, provide for the fact that, as The Bound Table puts it, the Catholics of Ulster entertain no less dread of the administration of Belfast than the Ulster Protestants entertain of the administration of Dublin. Even Ulster is not entirely united, and that being so it is almost impossible to devise a scheme of government which shall be acceptable to all. Something will be gained, however, if the Irish people can be convinced that , England wants to give them Home Rule if they can agree upon a scheme.— New Plymouth "Herald."