HUTT BY-ELECTION.
REFORM CANDIDATE’S FIGHT. NEWSPAPER’S EULOGY. In a leading article on the Hutt by-election, the Dominion says :— “Mr Johnston deserves to be congratulated for his splendid pioneering campaign against heavy odds. He started from scratch. There was no ready-made organisation to support him, no Reform vote had been poled in the Hutt since 1922 (seven years ago), everything had to be made anew. Those who have had any experience of political campaigning know how real were these disadvantages. Nevertheless from the outset, his personality impressed electors by the directness, the earnestness, and the sincerity of the man. His courage in carrying the fight to his opponents first won attention and then respect.
“In rejecting Mr Johnston the Hutt electorate has rejected the outstanding personality of the election. Also, for the time at least, it has closed the doors of Parliament on an able man who would have raised the general average in the House and contributed to its deliberations a wide outlook, a steady purpose, and the courage to carry a sound policy to an effective conclusion.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5518, 30 December 1929, Page 2
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178HUTT BY-ELECTION. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5518, 30 December 1929, Page 2
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