SIR JOSEPH WARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 77, 27 March 1912, Page 5

SIR JOSEPH WARD.

“THE FIRST STATESMAN IN THE (For Press Association A Dunedin, March 26. At a meeting of the supporters of the Liberal Party at Palmerston a motion was carried conveying to Sir Joseph Ward their high appreciation of the signally able manner in which he had fiuidcd the destinies of the country Tor the past six years, and expressing the hope that he would, at the earliest opportunity, assume the leadership of the Liberal aud Progressive Party, because it was not fair that the'country should be deprived of the services of the first statesman in the land. EE QUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION. Napier, March 27. A meeting of Liberals at Port Aliuriri adopted the following resolution ; “The Liberal supporters of the Government at Port Aluiriri have every confidence in Sir Joseph Ward’s able leadership, and trust be will reconsider his decision and continue to lead the Liberal Party, in which we have every confidence.”