WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED
In a speeclh delivered .'at Stan way on Friday eveminjg, Mr D. H. Gathrie, onei of the Opposition- Whips, a'd ' the Opposition could have won tilt second division in the February session: if they had bee<n prepared io sacrifice the interests of their constituents. He (the speaker), .v----iWjbiip of his party, lmd held in h;s hands for three hours a vdte Avh'.ch would 'have defeated tlhe Government tod tilie (Reform Party been, prepared to give an lassuraitae that whatever now Government w'als formed it would be 'allowed to stay in* until Jttns. This statement is somewhat ambiguous, and requires -ampilrfication. Tif- the- only, assurance was that the new Government should 'remain afai power until ■Jiune, why should it not have been given? How could tlhe interests of the constituencies ihave been sacrificed by .such an, assurance? Jf the. statement of iMlr Goithi'ie be corre:>t, it looks as if the 'Opposition ieaders very badly bungled affairs.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10667, 24 June 1912, Page 4
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159WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10667, 24 June 1912, Page 4
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