AN OPPOSITION CRITIC.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1773, 11 June 1913, Page 6

AN OPPOSITION CRITIC.

MAKES A BASELESS CHARGE,

"I cannot find time to corroet nil the misrepresentations in which Sir. Macdonald indulged when speaking at (iisborne tho other night," said the Prim® Minister to a Dominion reporter last oven in"-, "bnt there was one personal reference to myself which I think it necessary to put right. Tlio member f"r tho Bay of Plenty is reported to have said tilnt 'the Government had goilo oil Willi seveiv new railways, one of tliem bemff the Wainlcu line (to tlio Prime Itmistci s residence), 'i'lio innuendo is plain, >"l as it happens my home is not at Wai"'" l . nor within 35 miles of it. As a mn tcr of fact my homo is 20 miles nearer_tockland than the point wlicio the WaiuLn branch lino will probably join the main lino nor is the line being K°»° nn , w ! th as Mr Slacdonald led his audience to bclkn'e ' It was surveyed a quarter of a rciiturv am, l>«t H>* construction was nlS! In Shnd over until the completion If l e Main V'nn'k 1»«. The Wuiuku branch was authorised last session, mid as t "ill serve a )nrp> and closely settled T tione its construction will not bo nuch longer delayed, but 1 roallv think It?,. I f or tlio ororlit of Ins constituents Vr Maedonald should refrain from making such silly statements as tlio one I havo found it necessary to refer to.