SIR JOSEPH WARD
MISLEADING CABLE (By Tel earn ph.-Tress Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Sir Joseph Ward returned by the Aorangi yesterday. In reply to questions, ho said that he had had no communication with the leaders of any political party in New Zealand since ho left six months ago. He was not a member of the United Party, and had not been asked to accept its leadership. He did not expect to be able to _ say anything definite about ' politics for several days. He had made .no statement in Canada or elsewhere to the effect that he had received an invitation from the United Party or its officials to become its leader. When passing through Winnipeg by train to join the Aorangi, re-, plying to a question by a reporter who' had heard that ho was likely to stand again as leader of a political party, he said that he had received a cablegram from a personal friend in New Zealand " advising him that the United Party was meeting in Wellington on 15th September to elect a leader. He informed the reporter that this was all ho knewabout the position. The report cabled to New Zealand evidently created' a, wrong impression.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 52, 10 September 1928, Page 8
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