OPPOSITION PICNIC
looking a long way ahead,
i ~f (Per Press Association.) Ohristohurch. last night. A pionio ia honor of Messrs C. A. C. Hardy, 0. Lewi?, and R. Heaton Rhodes, M.H.R.’s, was held today at Eilounire, a small township where the electorates of Selwyn, Oourtenay, and,Ellesmere, represented respectively by ths members named, join. |Mr" Hardy confirmed tha news of his retirement at the end of the present >. parliament, saying that he did not see how be oonld afford to remain in the house ’, after the presaDt term. |j Mr Lewis said that though only a few ,r.d (position members managed to get in . V at least represent 150,000 electors. INA'iVfthonght be could safely say that the ooditjpposffiTon would'conduct its operations 3 n jo the proper spirit. _ He would ask Mr to suspend h ! s decision to retire, ll&Wben the Opposition cams in they would M vjant a Minister for Trade and Industries, and the oaiucy would be £I2OO not £3OO. Mr Rhodes said the Oppoiition members would still do their duty whether they formed a small or a large party.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1637, 29 December 1905, Page 3
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