LIBERAL "RALLY."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 301, 29 January 1910, Page 4

LIBERAL "RALLY."

j SPEECH BY THE PREMIER. [ J.!y Telegraph.—Press Association. | Wellington, Last Night. There was a large gathering at the .Town Hail to-night when .Mr. E. GaJ'ieliaii. organiser ot' the Liberal Party, •was presented with a puree of sovereigns on behalf of the Liberals of the •Dominion. , Sir Joseph Ward said the organisation was the key-tone of succosis. If united a--istanco had not been given,. .the iloveriiineiit won id not have been able to carry many important measures it had carried. A few people the Government had done nothing for the ■workers. Tim he denied. lie dre-vi special attention to the advances to settlers and workers schemes, providing half a million a year at a low rate of interest; al-o to the constitution of the arbitration legislation, which saved the country much stress and unhappine-s. Sir .10-eph alluded to the outcry in some Opposition papers respecting the shipping commissions paid in London and the allegation that some €.IOOO n year had been expended. That Miggos•tion was wid<> of the mark. This was the -nd of thin./ critie-i were trying ;0 .belittle the (iovennnent with, ignoring: tlie areat work ihe Government had done for the country. The Prime Min-i-tor spoke in high terms of appreciation of the good work done for Liberal•:sm by Mr. Galliclian for many years.