HON. GEO FOWLDS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10422, 13 September 1911, Page 6

HON. GEO FOWLDS

INTERVIEWED AT AUCKLAND. By Telegraph — Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. The Hon. G. Fowldfc, on hii'S arrival/here from Wellington, was asked if he thought'his withdrawal from the Gbvernment meant the emergence of a new party. He replied that he hoped' that that wouild not be necessary. He would like to see the re-organisation of the Liberal a more democratic, bases.. The party could not live on tradition® and name labels alone. The adhesion of the people, when attracted) by hope of gain instead of love of principle, had a paralysing effect on a party. Mr M'assey and 1 the Opposition were advocating one or two 1 progressive reforms, and under a new leader might easily sltep in and leave the Xdber.al party sidetracked. What was wanted wtasi to get back to the fundamental principles formulated 1 by Sar George Grey and Johh BaHance, the rounders of the Liberal parity. Some of his enemies had been dangling the old bovgies, single tax and freetrade, but tJhe new evangel which the Liberal party needed did not necessarily include an increased land value taxation and a further remission of duties on the necessaries of life.