THE AUTOCRAT ABROAD.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15979, 22 November 1919, Page 4

THE AUTOCRAT ABROAD.

It happens occasionally, no matter how* carefully-ho watches his steps, that Mr Massey stumbles, and makes disclosing ejaculations. Up at Eltham the Premier was telling his admiring audience some* thing about the buffer-fat levy and the equalisation fund, when an interjection said the people that manufactured dried milk had escaped the butter-fat tax. Mr Massey: “Ves, that is so.” The Voice (eagerly): “Why? Why?” Mr Massey: “Because I was away from New Zealand.” Now, asks the Feilding Star, why should anything like that have happened during the Chief’s absence? He had left his first lieutenant and financial expert. Sir James Alien, iu charge, and Sir Jamcy had the Liberal lieutenant, Mr Mac Donald, behind him, as well as the rest of the National Cabinet. As a matter of fact, if Mr Massey had not been so selftentred, he would have had more thrust in Cabinet, he would have taken .Sir Joseph Ward ipto his confidence—and the National Cabinet would have still been in existence!