MR T. M. WILFORD
MEETING AT OAMAEIT, Mr T. M. Wilford, who is visiting Oamaru, met a committee of Liberal supporters yesterday afternoon, and was cngaged arranging an organisation for the new progressive party led by _him. . In the evening, at the invitation of Mr Marshall Robinson, president of the North Otago Labor Council, an old commit teem an from Brooklyn (VVellinbton), ho met a full hall, principally of workers, to explain the attitude of tho new "party towards the workers of New Zealand. Mr Wilford, who was enthusiastically received,, stated that the new party stood against Mr Massey and Mr Holland: that his party was opposed to the extremists of both parties; that his party stood for King and Empire, and against Bolshevism or Red Feds; that it stood for nationality .and not internationalism ; that ho believed production was the only source from which labor could be paid, and without production the workers would go on riding on a merry-go-round and get off where they started; and that they stood for tho Liberalism of Richard John Seddon. Mr Wilford left to-day for Timaru.
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Evening Star, Issue 17925, 22 March 1922, Page 7
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