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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 22, 28 May 1913, Page 6

“ This is not the first time I have said that it would be beneficial to close the House of Commons for two years: we have sufficient legislation now to digest and go on with,'’ says Sir Thomas Dewar in the course of an interview with a representative of the “ Leader of British East Africa.’’ “ Send 50 per cent, of the members to visit all our possessions abroad: give them their £4OO a year, and it would be the best investment the British Empire could possibly have. If one got up in the House of Commons today and stated you were transplanting the Masai from the north to the south, a large majority of that House would imagine you were talking about a vegetable; if you asked many where the East African Protectorate was they would tell you somewhere between Aden and Cape Town. Uganda is known as a place where two decades ago there was much talk and a great amount of unnecessary opposition about building a railway to; where wild animals roam about and Roosevelt has visited; and Tim Healy in the House, in speeches of buffoonery, informs members is a place where mosquitos bite you in the morning and not at night—these must be rather unusual mosquitos—that vou get sick and die at night. I have been from Mombasa to Entebbe and have trekked many hundreds of miles in this country', and I may have been fortunate, but I have not yet ever seen or heard the ping of a mosquito, and I have found it the very finest climate in the world, and I have been in every country in the world.”