SOME OF SIR JOSEPH WARD'S SUPPORTERS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2109, 28 March 1914, Page 6

SOME OF SIR JOSEPH WARD'S SUPPORTERS.

_ Sir,—ln the assembly in tho Town I tall, Auckland., on Wednesday evening, Mitrc-h '25, Sir Joseph Ward said lie was extremely pleased to address such ■a largo and sympathetie audience, I ■lwpe it will he gratifying to him and his supporters to know that a fair -portion of that audience, in the hack of flio Town Kali, at least, was composed of cx-strikers and other men heist ■upon showing their ill-i'eeling towards the Majoi (Mr. C. J Pan) wiio presided, and these would naturally applaud anyone denouncing tho iinii manlier the Government- and tho municipal authorities in Auckland had dealt Willi that strike. Sir Joseph Ward saifl that if' lie had been in power ho would have settled it in two days; hut ho did not- say how. Thank Goodness ho '•i'as not, or else syndicalism would not have received the blow it lias throughout the Dominion. As 'Sir Joseph Ward's speech, in reference to the strike, war evidently meant to awaken animosity, ■he naturally succeeded amoiigst suet . an audience, tat it was disgU'stiM tEq sit and hear their remarks., want d't order, and unruly behaviour towards out t worthy chairman (Mr. C. J. parr).—J am, etc., AN AUCKLAND CITIZEN.