THE PREMIER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1288, 17 November 1911, Page 6

THE PREMIER.

• 1 SPEECH AT PALMERSTON SOUTH, LADY MOVES A HOSTILE MOTION, (Dy Tclcgranli-PreES Association.) Pnlmcrston South, November lfi. 'J'lin Prime Minister arrived in Palraerstoii (his evening, and was presented with' ..'in address (if welcome. Addressing a pHlilii: meeting to-night, Kir Joseph Ward Mid he had just completed a remarkably, 1 mi : essful t olll . <; f |,is district, and, not. »nu.sl«mliii(j rumours to-thn contrary, he , n^, ! i"!" K V vil i ,lis srat by a '"■■wdsomo "•ij'i'ib-. Ho denied that Uw Govern, neiit had increased tbn taxation of the On &" 5 a '^ Wl ,)y U,G Leaier of ™ ■in I'" ii" b i n 1,, c fi" st fO,V dayS ' 1!< " ,'V " ° 1 . ,10 llvc "'lilion Joan, ho said in. I even in Atkinson's fiino inform a. • wT" I ]'. ,11 " 1 ? lnan transactions was •mil '7 Wlthin lbo last few - d^s .» S*« w « "»* yet completed, for ucl leasnn it was not possiblo to giro' On hi o ''! 1 )" 11 ' 0 ," **¥,' 1 ior '»>• mombers. , ~*, - x 0 '. 00 , 0 P?r annum, and the* o) c ao p =nXt. h iou^nrt ct ihi; mwpenbr of the country, g'.Vd that« Zealand s prosperity was not in the' a«pro ß ato surpassed by that of any other country in the world. A lady moved; "That Sir Joseph Ward; be thanked for his address, and that the' incßlmc is of opinion that the time has. arrived when there should bo a chance' of Oovernmont." • An amendment to the effect that Sir Joseph Ward bo thanked for his address,, and that the meeting express continued confidence in the Prime Minister and the Oovernmont was carried by a substantial majority.