To Inspire Confidence.

Mr. Nash, moreover, is confronted with the task of, removing big-business suspicion and of establishing the confidence of the commercial and financial world in the Dominion's Labour administration. Much will naturally depend on his personality as well as his mastery of administrative problems. He will have to inspire faith in New Zealand's goo.d intentions and his capacity for giving effect to those intentions. He must demonstrate to the satisfaction of our kin in Great Britain most of all that the accession of a party of radicals and earnest social reformers to the seats of the mighty in New Zealand does not mean ruin, confiscation, national bankruptcy and collapse, and all the other fearful results that some prophets of dolour and woe are forever predicting.