OUR DREADNOUGHT.
A number of Opposition journals in New Zealand, with characteristic audacity, are. disseminating the glaring untruth that the Massey Government opposed the gift of the Dreadnought, and that it was this gift that precipitated the downfall of Sir Joseph Ward. Such wanton perversity is almost beneath contempt. Everybody knows, or'should know, that at was the manner in which the Dreadnought was offered, and not the gift itself, that was resented by the Reform Party and by the country. Sir Joseph Ward (preferred to take newspaper editors instead of the people into his confidence. He flouted Parliament by making an offer on his own initiative. The fact that the Heform Party subsequently endorsed the gift shows that Mr Massey and his following were neither unpatriotic nor unmindful of the interests of the Empire. This fact, however, did not absolve Sir Joseph Ward of the responsibility for an indirect and highly improper assumption of a Parliamentary pre-, rogative.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 April 1913, Page 4
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158OUR DREADNOUGHT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 April 1913, Page 4
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