MR W. F. MASSEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10485, 23 November 1911, Page 5

MR W. F. MASSEY

SPEECH AT PALMERSTON

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., Last Night. Mr W. F. Massey a vary large meeting at tlie Opera. House- this evening, hundreds being turned away. He was received with cheers, and spoke for over two hours, covering similar ground to his former speeches. A number of questions were subsequently answered. The meeting closed just before eleven. In reply to a question as to why ho had waited.till after Mr T. E. Taylor was dead to clear him of aspersions he had cast upon him, Mr Massey said Mr Taylor was dead and lie would say -.nothing but good of the. dead. Ho denounced the asker of the question as a cur,, and said he had shaken hands with Mr Taylor at Christchurdh and they had said that they could settle tiheir difference in a five minutes' talk. Ho denounced the correspondent who asked this question in that day's Manawatu Daily Times and said that he was" making si collection of such things all over the Dominion to hand to his solicitors, as there was such a thing as criminal libel. At the close a vote of thanks and a-trust that Mr Massey would secure a substantial majority that would enable him to takb up tho Government was carried, an amendment of thanks ?>eing'cried down and lost. The meeting closed just before eleven o'clock •with prolonged cheering for Mr Massey.