THE LOST PALMERSTON SEAT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 908, 30 August 1910, Page 4

THE LOST PALMERSTON SEAT.

■ GOVERNMENT EYE ON IT. (From dur Special Correspondent.) Palmerston, August 29.. Matters political havo taken, a decided turn hero lately. No doubt the adven( in our midst of Mr. Robert M'Nab hnJL livcucd up his political opponents, the i'almerston branch of the Polituyt Reform League has held its annual meeting, elected officers, and is now getting to work in earnest. It has been arranged to hold a "social" on September 12, at which a number of prominent members of the Opposition party will give addresses. Although it. is understood that Mr. W. T. Wood, ex-member for Palmerston, will stand down in favour of Mr. M'Nab, it is also understood that this is on condition that Mr. Wood will be called to the Legislative Council or provided for., in some other way. Anyhow,'both parties are making an early start, which portends a great fight for the Palmerstou seat at the next general election. It was a bitter pill to the Government to lose the seat, and no effort will be spared to regain it.' Kumour hath it that the particular sops to be dangled baforo Palmerstonians will be the Dairy School and \ " the Hokowhitu Bridge, and, in the dim distant future, a new railway station.