"DIRECT INSULT"
MEN WHO WERE SHUT OUT
(By Telegrapii.—Prert Association.) AUCKLAND, 16th November. "Both the Reform ana United Parties wanted me and asked me in the interests of the country to stand," declared Mr. W. J. Holdsworth, Independent Reformer for Roskill, in opening his campaign to-night. "Now they ask me in the interests of the country to stand down. I took the only proper course, and put myself in the hands of the people who choge me. They were unanimous in asking me to continue to stand. "I know business men in the South Island who agreed/under pressure; to stand, and were later shut out by the Coalition. I regard the decision as. a direct insult to such men. The political rights -we enjoy to-day we're won by men who fought and suffered for them, and I challenge any two gentlemen in Wellington to rob me of what I hold dear." Answering a question, Mr. Holds-worth-said if returned he would support only the party that was doing right and no one else.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1931, Page 10
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