THE PREMIER DEALS WITH MR RUSSELL.
There was some solid battling in the House after midnight on Friday, Mr Russell and the Prime Minister crossed swords and sparks flew.
The member for Avon, assuming the role of a prophet, declared that it the Grey election had happened two weeks later Mr Massey would have put all his goods in the window. He warned the Government that it was on its trial, and cited the result of the election in support of his statement, and predicted that a general election was looming near at which ten Government members would lose seats.
When Mr Massey rose he was pelted with interjections about the Grey election, He replied that the fact ot Mr Michel polling so well where there had not been a Government candidate for 20 years was a wonderful record, and he believed that it would not be long before he took his place in Parliament. He did not, he added, wanted to enlarge on the tactics followed on that election. He had been in politics a great many years, but the most humiliating thing he had ever wtnessed in connection with politics was the way in which the Liberal members of the House endeavoured to hang on to the coat tails of the Red Feds., and all the time the Red Feds.
What the Premier said was lost in a storm of interjections. Emerging from the chaos he was heard to say that no set of men was so distrusted as the men with whom Mr Russell was associated, including that member himself.
A voice: Keep your temper. Mr Massey: What I am saying is absolutely correct. I have no temper to lose. A voice: Be dignified, anyway.
Later on Mr Russell said : “I will meet you on the platform, and give you all you want.” Mr Massey : ‘‘l want the Avon seat at next election, and I am going to get it.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1126, 29 July 1913, Page 3
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323THE PREMIER DEALS WITH MR RUSSELL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1126, 29 July 1913, Page 3
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