HON J. A. MILLER

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10647, 31 May 1912, Page 5

HON J. A. MILLER

DECLARES AGAINST THE GOV- '< ERNMENT. FA\OL'K3 A FUSION. (By Telegraph—Fress A ssrciation.) B-UNEDTN, Last S'ifeCrt. The Hon. J. A. Millar was eivter-tai-ae'J at a social by his <sii porters and •frienofi to-night, tuia EarVy Settlers' Hail Ibeing tilled.' A numuer of other members and proinMivnt citizen.? were present, and tne Mayor i.Mr John Wilson; presided. In the course of his ackl'i-eus, Mr Millar said \te Liberal JL\i?oy 'uad recL'Utly received a reverse, and iro-riay was in the unhappy position of being broken up by men who had not ibit-n five minutes in public lite.. He did not cure if lie never held office/.again, so long as he saw a.Uqv--ernmie-nt in office that'would carry-on j the country's affairs on the same progressive lines as in the past. Hie party to-day was at the beck and call uf. live or six. men, who would drug it ilnrough the mud at their own sweet will. It was an undesirable position, and he) diid- not intend to help it, more especially when they had one of those gentlemen on the h'ocr of the House saying it war* his roiesicn in life to suck'the Liberal party dry and then throw it over. He intended to try to send, thait member oa.-k to liis constituents, Ji-iicl show'that his vaunted po\yersof Miction' were not there. Tlieyl found-three llova-1 Com-missaoiis. sitting to-day .for the gradual . a-beorp- '■[(• ix cf men who were o/jubtiful. It would be a thoixand times better for the partvto- go into hcn'ouvable opposition . H&s principles were the same as they had always bcOn, and at the clofje cf this puiblic life he was not going to change them. He was not going over to the Reform Party. One Qf°two things inuiefc happen. A newparty roust be formed within . the House ■fvom men on botlli sides, feavextremist out. It must be a party with a broad, forward without any rash experiments. . It; they could not form a party on ■ thoselines, his vote would go every a dissolution. Possibly there \youkl be a .Mm-istpr in Dunedin shortly,.and attev noting what he said he would probably adch-ef* a meeting in reply to Iwha't might ibe said in regard to himrself, or the action of those endeavouring to put the affairs of the country on a sounder basis. He would also ox-plain mor? fully what took nlace on the'last occasion the party met. Other niembens of Par]ia>mo:rt also; spoke in tennis of appreciation of Mr MilI lar'fi work as a iMiireter and m*in-