OUR POLITICS
“ A SAFE CROSSING ” MINISTER GATHERS SOUTHERN VIEWS [Special to the ‘ Star.’] WELLINGTON, March 25. The Hon. T. M. Wilford (Minister of Defence and Justice) has returned from tho first tour of the South Island which he has been able to make since tho formation of the new Government. When asked for some of his impressions of the South Island, ho remarked that some of the most vivid, in an extremely interesting tour, had been the political impressions. “ 1 travelled from Pictou to Invercargill,” remarked the Minister, “ meeting representatives of public bodies, business men, and others of all shades of political opinion, and I was natuially interested to get their view of the change in the political situation, f can sum up the results in a few words, which give the attitude of even many of those who were formerly opposed to the present position. One of those gentlemen put it to me thus: ‘ Your party would have obtained a lot more votes, Mr Wilford, if we, who had supported Reform for so long, had been able to be sure that we could make a safe crossing. We feared that the alternative to Reform was Labour, but now we know that the safe crossing has been piado, your party will real) tbo benefit in the clays to come.’ ”'
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Evening Star, Issue 20134, 26 March 1929, Page 12
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219OUR POLITICS Evening Star, Issue 20134, 26 March 1929, Page 12
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