REFORMERS & PROGRESSIVES
DISCLAIMER BY SIR JAMES ALLEN. The following statement has boen handed to the Press by Sir James Allen, Acting-Prime Minister:— "My attention has been called to ;> newspaper report that Messrs. C. J. P;irr and Vernon Reed have been to Napier choosing a candidate for the next Election. No authority for any such action has been given by Mr. Massey, or by mo as anting leader of the Reform Party in Mr. Massey's absence. The compact entered into when the National Government was .formed is still in existence, and will be maintained in its entirety so far as the Reform Party is concerned nntil an announcement is made by their leader, after the return of Mr. Massey and . Sir Joseph Ward." It is quite well understood In Napier and elsewhere that Messrs. C. J. Parr and Vernon Reed were not actine for the Reform Party, but for the new "Progressive" Pnrty, which they, with other members of the House, are trying to form.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 212, 2 June 1919, Page 4
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164REFORMERS & PROGRESSIVES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 212, 2 June 1919, Page 4
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