Private Enterprise and Public Experience.

When he went out of the railway service he became head of the biggest customer the railways had in New Zealand—the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Association. That association had a turnover which, this year, would approximate £6,000,000. It owned its own coal mines, milled its own bush, made its own boxes, and so on. Therefore, he was particularly fortunate in having come into contact with the railways on the other side of the fence, and to have got the customers’ point of view on the railway problem. (Applause.) That fact, he trusted, would be of value to the Government in the office he now held.