"A MORAL FOR SIR JOSEPH.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 72, 24 March 1923, Page 7

"A MORAL FOR SIR JOSEPH.

REFORMER'S HffiH TRIBUTE. i 'Ry Teletfrnph. -Snc-ial m -star."i TAURAXIiA. thin flay. It is reported ill tlio I'refw that llioxc ' in tlio knew lit Wellington consider it a rariral certainty that Sir Joseph Ward will win ihe sent. This view 'is general throughout the Dominion. ' At the same time Sir Joseph's flip- ' porters are well aware of their oppon- ' cuts' taction, and realise that a L'ampaijrn of calumny is on loot, but tlio 1 electors in this extensive cleft orate are ' a very shrewd class, and are not ho easily pulled to Mas>eydonia. nor are they to lie driven and jroaded into voting for Mr. Macmillan merely because Mr. Massey. in parable form, tol.l them in the Tauranga Town Hall that all who voted for Sir Joseph Ward were too preen to burn in tin , underworld. One of his erstwhile supporter*, who heard him at Tauranpa and also heard • ! Sir Joseph Ward, confessed that there , was no comparison between the two speecliei. Sir Joseph's policy speech. he declared, embodied the greatest and i the most comprehensive scheme ever . placed before the New Zealand public 1 since the days of Sir Julius Vogel. Mr. M:as.-ey's speech--well, the less said the better, seemed to be the course . adopted by the Reformer.