THE PALMERSTON SEAT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 October 1913, Page 4

THE PALMERSTON SEAT.

It --j is Hhtther flattering to Mr D. Buiok, the member for Palmerston North, that tlie Opposition should already be making a move in the direction of unseating him. ' Two years ago it j, was confidently stated that, with Mr Robert MoNab—an ex-Min-ister of the Crown—in the field, Mr Buick would be required to pack -up his traps and go back to his farm. The PaJmerston North electors, however, knew when they had an .honest, straightforward, and industrious representative,' and they refused',to supplant him evenjivith -aii ;ter.- 'Now We}are:informed that Mr; ■ v"W' T,: ■ ■-Wood;' ; whrifar-Mr' i Buiek? dei - '; feated fivo'years ago, ; is to be aiked to carry tho Opposition banner. Presumably Mr Wood is regarded as a stronger mail than Mr McNab. x The ''go in 'aad win" telegram.sent by thelatter to the Red Fed. Mr Webb has seriously compromised him with the "Lijiersl#." Byt Mr Buick, who is a vigorous fighter, need feel very -little alarm about the future. He is supporting a party that is jinking a very favourable in the country, and $$ .Palffierston North electors ftj'e too intelligent to votfe : .or a return to the opportunism and extravagance that were practised for twenty years in the name of alism."