A TRIBUTE TO MR. MASSEY.
ABLE AND COURAGEOUS LEADER. A splendid tribute was paid to Mr. Massey, Leader of the Opposition, by Mr. Herdman in the course of his sessional address in Wellington on Monday night, says the Dominion. He had sometimes heard (he remarked) that if the Opposition got into power they might do no good. Those who held snch a view were, in his opinion, totally mistaken. He did not think that many people understood what a deep personal regard members of the Opposition had for their respected leader. Mr. Massey was a man not only of enormous anergy and of great capacity, but he was a man of high ability and great courage. When he remembered how Mr: Massey had stuck to his guns when his following was not nearly so large as at present, he felt that at such a time some men might have preferred to have dropped out of the fight. But not so Mr. Massey. He had fought on and on and on, and he deserved the best encouragement which could be given him. Speaking as a junior member of the party, he would say: "Give the men on the front benches of the Opposition a chance, and they will, I feel certain, do a great deal better than the party now in power." (Loud laughter.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10122, 19 October 1910, Page 7
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223A TRIBUTE TO MR. MASSEY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10122, 19 October 1910, Page 7
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