"MINISTERIAL TEAM IS SPLENDID ONE.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 21 December 1928, Page 4

"MINISTERIAL TEAM IS SPLENDID ONE.”

TRIBUTE PAID BY MR CLYDE CARR, M.P

Tiktn all round, the Ministerial team is a very fine group of men, and we can look to them for the type of legislation for which New Zealand has been striving for many years. This eulogy 6f the New Zealand Ministry was made last evening by Mr Clyde Carr, M.P., at a complimentary function tendered to his supporters .at Timaru.

New Zealand was embarking upon a period of humanitarian legislation, said Mr Carr. Legislation would be passed which would give the

people their fair share of the good things of life, and something like equality for everybody. There had been a fundamental change. The United Party, standing for Liberal interests, was in power, and for that occasion everyone was pleased and proud. “It is my honest conviction,” he uid, “that the Ministerial team selected by Sir Joseph Ward is a very splendid one indeed. I have met a few of the tylinisters, and, so far as I am able to gather, these are some progressive men, men of vision, and men who are prepared to do their job, in the new Cabinet.” Just as there had been a Coates wave in the 1925 election, said Mr Carr, so there had been a Ward wave in 1928. In paying a tribute to the new Prime Minister, Mr Carr said that it was the linking of his name with the United Party that had a great deal to do with the change of Government. The Timaru vote was in many respects a vote for the United Partv.