NOTES AND COMMENTS.

West Coast Times, 14 June 1912, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Discussing the stop-gap Cabinet, the “Voice of Labour” says:—“ Put together by McKenzie from out of the ruins of the played-out party, which the people of Now Zealand so unceremoniously fired into the scrap heap Vm December 14th last, has now boon on the political premises for nearly six months, and lias during that time occupied itself with demonstrating to the public that it is really only a patched up and temporary Cabinet, with a feeling of the insecurity of its future existence so deeply stamped on its mind that it can’t settle down to think out any proposition to better the conditions of the people; but instead, is resolved to make the -most of its time while it lasts, banqueting, junketting and caravansing around the country, and after that the Deluge. The Liberals have not a shred of a policy of any kind, neither have they any desire for a policy, neither have they the ability to carry out a policy, even if they had the policy and the opportunity. With one or two not by any moans brilliant exceptions, but brilliant only by comparison, the McKenzie Cabinet is the greatest collcc-

tior of mediocrities that ever set sail on tho political ocean. The McKenzie Cabinet is great on Royal Commissions. It is setting up Royal Commissions to enquire into almost every subject in tho political ' domain. Tho Royal Commission is the last refuse of the political incompetent Cabinet. We are to have a Royal Commission on the Cost of Living. Was over bungling mediocrity and hopeless sncorapetency ever more clearly admitted by any Cabinet than in this.