THE LIBERAL LEADERSHIP

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 18 November 1911, Page 5

THE LIBERAL LEADERSHIP

TIMARU, Nov. 18. The Hon. Millar has handed to the Press Association a communication in which he explains that his reference to the leadership of the party has been misunderstood, and there is no warrant for distorting his remarks into a suggestion that Sir Joseph Ward intended to relinquish his position. "My object," he says, "in making reference as I did to tii© subject was to deny publicly the report which is being insidiously circulated in Dunedin, my constituency, that there was no need to vote for me at the coming election, because I was to proceed to London after the election to take up the position of High Commissioner for New Zealand. In fact, this rumor had gone much further afield than my own electorate, and I took the first opportunity of denying that I intended any such course of action.