GOVERNMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15357, 4 October 1923, Page 6

GOVERNMENTS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —A short while ago I read an article in one of the leading papers dealing with the failure of State enterprises in Australia. May it not be these losses and apparent failures of many Government ventures are due to the numerous changes in leaders, y bringing lessened interest in the work of their predecessors, alteration of \ policy and different ideals? Since the war Governments in every country have had changes, except this Domin- j ion; consequently they have never had •] time to consummate the carrying out of their projects, and it must be admitted that enterprises of national importance aiming at economic advantages will necessarily take time to bring to a successful issue. It is fortunate for this Dominion that the Massey Government has remained in power so long. It has given a chance to gradually correct mistakes, probe weaknesses, and gauge, through' experience, the requirements of the country. Change for a time disorganises and has to experiment. Time after all is the essence, and alone can give proof of efficiency or otherwise; but it must be gratifying to the wellwishers of this 1 Dominion to know that 'through all the trials and tribulations which naturally come in the wake of war, strikes and epidemics, we have not known .poverty, and even at the worst we were better off in a 101 ways than our neighbours. The Government that can meet the occasion and so rapidly bring the country back to prosperity could only have done it by experience. What to-day would be experimental with a new Government is known and discarded as useless. It seems logical that many changes in a short decade must cause a certain amount of disorganisation. An old well-tried farmer sells out to a new one, and it is always two or three seasons before the machinery runs smoothly and production is maintained and increased by the new one. Mr Massey has had time to deliver the goods, and is delivering them; so many J have not had the time, so could not. Do not alwyas blame the statesmen, but rather the inconsistency of the masses.—l am, etc.,

A.S.G.S.