THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
STATEMENT BY PREMIER
Hamilton, April 24
Interviewed by a “Waikato Times’’ representative to-day on the future leadership, the Premier said he could not see people were looking to Mr Massey at all. The Opposition has succeeded in discrediting the lormer Liberal leader, but it by no means followed that the effects ot their methods against Sir Joseph Ward implied that the country wanted Mr Massey to be entrusted to control the destinies of the Dominion. Mr Massey’s captains-geuerals had won many lights in the last campaign which had been bungled by their leader. The length of time the present Government would remain in office was for the House to say. If the present favourable feeling met with by Ministers throughout the Dominion continued it would be reflected when Parliament met. The Premier made it quite, clear that the Government would use no political legerdemain to secure majorities, The country was Liberal at heart, and was looking lor guidance on sound, economic, progressive lines. His party met these reasonable aspirations. There could be no doubt of its future.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1035, 25 April 1912, Page 3
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180THE POLITICAL SITUATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1035, 25 April 1912, Page 3
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