SIR JOSEPH WARD RETIRES AS LIBERAL LEADER;

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 February 1912, Page 2

SIR JOSEPH WARD RETIRES AS LIBERAL LEADER;

■' •-•-- ■" ■-'•-:- - r ;n; : (n ci TO FACILITATE REItfANGE^ WITH LABOUR.!:? :I STILL A FIGHTING M^MBElf. HOPES TO WIN DJTVniION^ ABLE SPEECH BX Slßr JOSEPH. ;MR'MASSEy^MOY^.^^ONi3i .• ;■.. PENCE AM^NDMENX;;w i. - 1 Bx Tetefe? aphj^-§peciai ;to Ajdverjbieer.;j: -■ ■ cWellirigfoii,' This Day, Sir Joseph Ward retires as Liberal Leader to!facilitate natural reliance with labour. * Still a fighting^eiribef, '""ftPsayf: •• It.we win tais division, aal : honestly believe we will, I; not propose to continue in the position I hold now. I am not goingto be used as a -butt to injure the Liberal and Labour Party of this country." .._.., After some banter between W Premier and Mr Massey, yesterdaj aftejcnoon, Mr Repd:(Bay of Islands) opened the ball iv the ■; House .'by '} moving the address>in-reply, v Mr r T^ompson (Wallace)seconding. " ; ,.;"'''r/r Mr iHassey followed kt.some length at the end of iwaich he moyej bis noconfidence amendment, vp^ich was seconded bj Mr Rhodes (Eliesmere). S;ir Joseph then gaye a long and able speech and' was1 ■fbllbwei }bf~Mr James Alien.- .' ■:> '.■--- :i:^t t

At midnight the LHouse Aadjdlu*n&l on the ; motion ; of Mr .Payne (Grey Lynn). ■ ' ".. jV . J