MR. WILFORD AT OAMARU.
ATTITUDE OF NEW PARTY. Oamaru, March 21. Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P., is visiting Oamaru, He met a committee of Liberal supporters this afternoon, arranging an organisation for the new Progressive Party led by him. Tactile evening, at the invitation of Mr Marshall Ashton Robinson, president of the North Otago Labour Council (who is an old committeeman of his from Brooklyn, Wellington), Mr Wilford met a good audience, principally of workers, to -explain the attitude of the new party towards the workers of New land'. Mr Wilford, who was enthusiastically received, stated that the new P'arty stood against Mr Massey and Mr Holland; that it opposed the extremists of both parties; that it stood for King and Empire against Bolshevism or Red Feds; that it stood for nationality and not internationalism; that it believed that production was only the source from Which labour could he paid, and that without production the workers would go on riding a merry-go-round, and get off where they started; and that they stood for the Liberalism of Richard John Seddon. Mr Wilford will leave to-morrow for Timaru, and -will go to Ternuka on Thursday.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2408, 23 March 1922, Page 3
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193MR. WILFORD AT OAMARU. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2408, 23 March 1922, Page 3
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