FUSION INEVITABLE
REFORM AND UNITED LABOUR CANDIDATE’S CLAIM A large audience gathered last evening when Mr. A. S. Richards, Labour candidate for Roskill, addressed an open-air meeting at Mountain View Road. The candidate said lie had great respect fqr Sir Joseph Ward, especially in years pas% but recently it seemed as if Sir Joseph’s memory was failing. Sir Joseph had condemned State trading, and this was a complete denial of his speech in 1919 on the Financial Statement, when he showed that by setting up a State Bank, £500,000 could be paid yearly in the relief of taxes. Mr. Richards claimed that if the Reform and United Parties were returned equally divided, they would merge to defeat Labour. Speaking at Invercargill, in 1925, Sir Joseph had said the two main parties should get together, and his advice and assistance would therefore go toward fusion, which he regarded as inevitable. Votes of thanks and confidence in the candidate were carried.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 501, 2 November 1928, Page 13
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