MR. HOLMAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 199, 20 February 1914, Page 8

MR. HOLMAN.

ins ciiiasTciii'nai visit. KXTKUTAIXKD lIV MU. RUSSELL. i\v Telegraph.—Press Association. C'hristchurcli, Lust Xight. The lion. W, A. Ilolinan, Premier of Xew .South Wales, spent a very linsy day sight-seeing in (Jhrisl.church. This morning lie. with .Mrs. Holman, paid visits to |hv art gallery, museum, gardens, provincial council chambers, tepid baths and Express Company's linihlings. in order to see the view from the roof. This afternoon, after a short pleasure jaunt upon the river, Mr. and .Mrs. Ilolinan attended tlus \ ietoria League Harden Party, and afterwards were entertained by Mr. (I. W. liusscll. M.P., ami leit for Wellington by this evening's boat. Mrs. Holman, also, this morning, visited the Hostel for girls at tile Technical .School. Mr. Ilolinan was asked if he wished to limke any comment on the criticisms by the Sydney Press of his recent utterances at Wellington and he said the only observation tliat occurred to him was that, the naive acceptance by tiie Sydney Press of condemned reports, as conveying the true purport of his remark* at Wellington, still surprised him. Probably a dozen sentences hail been taken from liis speech and had been cabled over, and upon the suggestion that the message conveyed these criticisms bad been based. The man in the street might be pardoned, for assuming that, the cabled report faithfully reproduced the speaker's meaning. TinPress itself ought to know better. It was impossible, he added, to earrv on a controversy at a distance of'l-2011 miles, mill he had nothing to say except that apparently the Sydney newspapers, on this occasion had spoken without any warrant.