POLITICS AND POTATOES.
THE SUPPOSED “POWER REliIND THE THRONE.”
The Prime Minister (Hon. T. Mackenzie) was questioned the other day in regard to the statement attributed to Sir Joseph Ward <in Sydney to the effect that he might return 'to the Premiership of New Zealand. Mr. Mackenzie said:—“l think the press has got the wrong hang of what. Sir Joseph Ward said, or at any rate the spirit of it- I might add, apropos of the suggestion that has been made that Sir Joseph Ward is ‘the power behind the throne,’ it is now two months since I was entrusted with the control of the affairs of this country, audgwith the exception of one letter ‘from him, which was not advisory, 'and one from me to him yesterday, asking him to rise his good offices in Australia for the admission of our potatoes under conditions which, while safeguarding the people there from any fear of disease from that source, will help our agriculturists to- place large quantities of their splendid crop this year in the Commonwealth, I have had no communication from him. I am pleased to be able to add that we are getting along snlendidlv in the country, as the public could easily discover were they able to learn liow things are faring with us.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3536, 29 May 1912, Page 2
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217POLITICS AND POTATOES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3536, 29 May 1912, Page 2
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