MISPRESENTED

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 6

MISPRESENTED

SIR JOSEPH WARD. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WOODPILLE, March 6. According to telegrams received by the Prime Minister at Napier,- a condensed Press Association report of a speech made by him at Gisborne recently has created the impression, in some quarters that a pact exists between the Reform and tlie United parties. “It is hardly necessary for me. to repudiate the eixstence ol any such understanding,” said the Prime Minister, in an interview to-day, “but to remove the misapprehension that has arisen,.l wish to repeat .the. .actual words used by me. These were; 1 lit co-operation of all sections is required to advance the country’s best interest. What we want is to pull together—we want Reform. United and Labour -' working with mutual trust and forbearance ,and not each “at the other’s throat” all the time. Sir Joseph added-. “The Press Association report sent credited me with the statement that Reform and United were working together—a statement I never made, and oik; with a vastly different meaning from that contained in the views actually exnressed. as I was not referring to the individual politics of any. oi the three parties.” PRESS ASSOCIATION EXPLANATION. WELLINGTON, March G. With reference to the telegram from Woodvilie in which Sir Joseph Ward states that the report of his speech at Gisborne has created a wrong impression, through being distorted in condensation, a reference to the original shows that it was sent correctly, and in the form which he approves. Apparently the telegram has been wrongly filled in by some papers and a different meaning given to it to what Sir Joseph really said.