LIBERAL LEADERSHIP
SIR JOSEPH WAED DECLINES
In the course of an address at Waiuku in support of Mr. T. Parker, Liberal candidate for the Raglan seat, Mr. Hall Skelton, of Auckland, is reported to have stated that arrangements are being made for the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward to takeover tho leadership of the Liberal Party. Interviewed by a "Post" reporter today, Sir Joseph Ward denied that he was accepting the Liberal leadership. He stated that he had been approached by many people in different parts of the country urging him to place himself at the head of the Liberals again, but he had declined these requests, and it was not his intention to follow this course.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 70, 20 September 1927, Page 10
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