PRETTY STRONG TALK.
"INTRIGUING AND VILLAINY/' By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Niglut. At a ''welcome home" tendered to the Hon. Geo. Fowlds by his election committee at Grey Lynn to-night, some ■pretty strong talk was indulged in about the forthcoming contest in that electorate. Mr. Fowlds, after deprecating the introduction of personalities into the contest, said Oliat his presence in the Caibinet was likely to interfere with the interests of a certain party, and it did not Matter to thum who it was that stood for the seat so long as it was someone to defeat him. Mr. Sexton said the election was botweon bribery and corruption on. the one hand and thu people's interests on the other.
Mr. C. H. Pools, M.P., was responsible for tlii! statement that in the electorates were to be found political assassins, hired and l subsidised to kill the moral life of the community. Mr. Poole furtUicr said: "When no-license comes this intriguing villainy that is honeycombing the politics of this <sountry will be killed forever."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 252, 17 October 1908, Page 2
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172PRETTY STRONG TALK. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 252, 17 October 1908, Page 2
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