DEFAMING THEIR COUNTRY.
WORK OF THE "STINKING FISH" PARTY. "UNKIND, UNGENEROUS, AND MALICIOUS." WHAT THE PREMIER FOUND IN LONDON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Sir Joseph Ward was entertained at iuncheon by the New Zealand Club today and was elected the first honoraiy member. In the course of a speech regarding his trip abroad, the Prime Minister sail everywhere he went he found a deep interest taken in New Zealand and our social laws. After mentioning the friendliness with which he had been greeted in various countries during his travels, he referred to certain statements t'nat had been circulated in reference to New Zealand's finances and so on. It was a question, he commented, whether N<iv Zealand should not follow the example of Canada in protecting itself by legislation against the "unkind, ungenerous and malicious things' 1 said about the country. Judging by the stories that were disseminated, one might belk-e that the country was next door to insolveacy. He had gone to England on a matter of some consequence to Ne v Zealand. As soon as be reached London a representative of one of the great metropolitan papers called on him" and produced two sheets of foolscap past.-d over with newspaper cuttings purporting to show that everyflflng was bad in Nov Zealand. Across the top of the sheets was written, "God's own country," an 1. at the bottom, "When tie Prime Min- , ister comes give him a good time." The papers of the Old Country, he was gla 1 to say, did not publish one word of those allegations. That sort of thing did not injure him as an individual, but it might be injurious to the Domin.on when the common interests of New Zealarftt were at stake. All classes should do their best to keep np the eountrv ~. good name. If by accident there wei» Dad times it was the duty of the people to get the country out of the bai times.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 207, 6 October 1909, Page 3
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326DEFAMING THEIR COUNTRY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 207, 6 October 1909, Page 3
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