SHADOW OF A COMING EVENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1071, 6 March 1913, Page 2

SHADOW OF A COMING EVENT.

sThe following significant paragraph appeared in the Levin Chronicle: —“Amongst visitors to Levin to-morrow will be Mr and Mrs W. H. Feild. They will travel in company with the Hon. H. D. Bell and his party, and will accompany them on their visit to the State Farm, Weraroa, at noon, and in the afternoon to the official opening of the Levin Horticultural Society’s Autumn Show.” One interested in politics, so far as they concern this electorate, may assume from the above that Mr Field’s presence in such company presages the shadow of a coming event. As is well-known, Mr Field represented the Otaki electorate for many years in Parliament as a member of the Liberal Government under the Seddon-Ward regime. On the Land question, as a freeholder, he voted against the late Government, but outside this was a consistent Liberal. Sometime since a contemporary stated that Mr Field had decided to throw in his lot with the Reform Party and contest tliis seat under its banner. We have not seen any official contradiction of this and his prepresence in the electorate with a Reform Minister lends colour to the statement. No doubt Mr Field will settle all doubts on the question at an early date.