GENERAL ELECTIONS.
ISITT DEFINES HIS POSITION. NOT A CHESTNUT PULLER FORLABOUR. Wellington, Sept. 28. In a statement, Air. L. M. Isitt, M.P.. said the attempt to make out that he had in any way altered his position from his election platform in 1919 was absurd in the face of the evidence at his command. In his election manifesto in 1919 he said he was a Liberal and that if Sir Joseph Ward commanded a sufficient majority he should, of course, support his claim to lead the House, hut that if the extreme Labour party holds the balance he would aid the partv in power to resist their designs He also said that he would not vote the Liberal party into power on the declaration of extreme Labour, that is disloyal and Bolshevistic. A Christchurch paper sent a representative to him, the question and answer being published as under:— Will Mr. Isitt vote for a motion to put the Massey Government out of office ami Sir Joseph Ward in office if the election does not result in there being a majority against the Massey Government, exclusive of any member* of the official Labour party ? Heply: I will not vote to put Mr. Massey out and Sir Joseph Ward in hy aid of an extreme Labour party majority.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 245, 29 September 1922, Page 4
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216GENERAL ELECTIONS. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 245, 29 September 1922, Page 4
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