SPEECH BY HON. FOWLDS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 289, 12 June 1907, Page 4

SPEECH BY HON. FOWLDS.

» [PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, June 11. Addressing his constituents at Grey Lynn to-night, the Hon. U. Fowlds said the people ought to bo proud of the way Sir Joseph Ward had represented them at the Imperial Conference. He had had occasion recently to criticise oertain other delegates, and he had nothing to regret and nothing to take back. He wanted to see the British Empire consolidated, for it was the greatest force in the world to-day making for peace and justice, liberty and progress. We had to see that we maintained unaimpaired our own independence in these colonies, and in doing that we must grant the same freedom of action to the people of the Old Country. (Applause.) He also referred to the regrettable illness of the Hon Hall-Jones.