TAURANGA SEAT.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1923, Page 3

TAURANGA SEAT.

SIR JOSEI'II WARD'S POSITION SPFXI TO OUARKIAN. WI J.i.fNl I’l't'N. F' b 21. At presen,., th • ,> ll n■ 11 n-,-n- i■ t that .Sir Joseph V, ard may l" a ve lulalai'for the Tauranga -ear rendere.l vm "■ by the death of Sir Win H - : e- rests merely on the desire of many people throughout the Dominion Hud Hie e\Liberal Leader should ie-enter the House. Sir Joseph, wl'o-'e health inow fully restored, and b, iter than it had been at any t imo dm lag the duz n years preceding fits last Icm home, has not yet been con-till"'! a l: " M - the matter. and would not think "i nlcing the contest unless a >n"i’( •’■ ' '" 1 fie should do so. was ex; re-- v, (tlnu the eonstituen.-y. The state of the parties does not er-eerc:" him t-. iconU' the hustings ju-t now. '• .mm '■" 1 ! "' would be largely the B.e "'•! death of the Government rather then the \ 1fare of the eouuity. Ho'- he h,;not been asked to uiU'-r the -eeand b • ha - no reason to -up!"— I" "Ml be. Meanwhile he reitm.'i'cs hi-' regret that Tauranga and the Dmnirion have lx-l such a capable and cni" b-utine ; serva.M. as Sir Wiliam Hevncs. over a long series of years, had sbo'. u himsdf to he.