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A SMALL man with heavy ideas is W. E. Davy, the big noise behind the United New Zealand Political Party. When Davy cut the painter that attached him to the ship Reform and tossed the hawser aboard the foundering Liberal barque, unkind people said he was disgruntled. " Not a bit of it. Davy affirmed that the old barque had rotten planks m her. He wasn't going down with the wreck and instead, preferred to rehabilitate, and restock the old Liberal hulk under a new name. Said he'd do the job well. Meet him about the streets o' Wellington nowadays and one can extend to^him a certain amount of latitude if the bearing of a seer creeps into his manner. He doesn't actually say: "I told you so," but—
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NZ Truth, Issue 1201, 6 December 1928, Page 6
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132FROM THE PROMPT SIDE NZ Truth, Issue 1201, 6 December 1928, Page 6
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