MR J. T. M. HORNSBY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10411, 4 September 1911, Page 4

MR J. T. M. HORNSBY.

i For .some wteeks past Mr J. T. M." Romiaby, .tilie Gnovienntme/iit oandiidiate for tire Wiaina.raipa seat, bias been ooiniduiotling ha® aaimpaign. liin ttoe ruiraJ disitaticrba, where* newspaper reporters ar,e isieMoni seen/and the electors are po-ssrilbily imiore suscseprtiible' to (political "leg-jpiiMiiig" Whlam in. the larger cetn•treo. The Age "sent ia special reportter (to thie Lower TTaiueru on Saiturdiay ainighit, and the neport of Mr.EGornstby'is (speech, paiMishied (to-day, will prove ian >eyie>-opener. A more skril[fiuMy<soin/trived attempt to draw a herring across thie isoemit-, and. (make ' biaiok look white, Unas ramely ■ /been ifaiiaide. Mr Hbmsiby had the hlardihloodl (to say, lanranig other eStraordiknary. riMnigs, that ©very measiune ftn•foodiioed by the Governmeafc during ttfhe last twenty-one. years h!ad hven tfoytgjhlb by itibe Opposition!. ltl> meed (hlairdiliy be said tJh'afc this is absolutely j coiutriary ito foot. The art*i,tudei of the Opposition in re'gard to the Dtefanoe | Ax*, passed wiitMn ,th» iasib fiew nioauthisi, gives an eimplhlaitiic contradSction to isuch a statement. If Mr Hornsby has to resort .to sucib tac- ' tics as 1 tbase to bolster up his case, } than h© is ah- .a bad way indeed.