SIR JOSEPH WARD AND THE FARMERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 73, 26 March 1923, Page 7

SIR JOSEPH WARD AND THE FARMERS.

(To the Editor.) Sir—A great many reasons why Sir Joseph Warf should be elected for Tauranpa have been put forward, but to the minds of those who are intimate with his career, his greatest claim rests on the services he has rendered to the farming interests of New Zealand. The benefits conferred by that great measure, the "Advances to Settlers' Act," and similar laws are well known, but a fact with which the Tauranga settlers may be less familiar is the personal association which the Liberal candidate has always had with the agricultural and pastoral interests of Southland. The fine business he founded, that of Messrs. J G. Ward and Co.. is stiH closely allied with the growth and prosperity of Southland, in which province Sir Joseph is still esteemed by the grpat majority, no less than by tlie people of the Dominion at large, as the man really experienced and capable enough to rescue this country from the thraldom of political rot which set in. and has become chronic since the Reform party has been in power. Let the farmers, no less than the busines? men of New Zealand, recall the long period of prosperity we had at all time; whilst Sir Joseph's services and influence were at work. The eyes of electors everywhere have been riveted upon the Tauranga by-lection, not because of the contest in its entirety and significance but because of Sir Joseph's inspiring and constructive speeches which open up the strong prospect of a new vista in political development for this young coun try.—l am, etc.. A SOUTHLAND FARMER.