QUESTION OF GENERAL ELECTION
(Our Special Correspondent.) Wellington, Feb. 20. Special significance appears to attach to the statement made by Sir Joseph Ward at an election meeting to-night that he was opposed to the holding of a general election during the war period. He had Mr. Massey beside him on the platform, and he evidently spoke with the concurrence of the Prime Minister. His utterance is at variance with the recent statement of another Minister that there would be a general election early next year. The reasons why Sir Joseph Ward does not wish to have to take part in a general election during the war period are fairly well known. from the important question of national unity in the face of tho enemy, lie feels that the Liberal party would ' daced at a grave disadvantage if it o face a general election with its .us still tied, in whole or part, by tho compact on which the National Government is based.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 March 1918, Page 4
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