NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.
CONTINUANCE AFTER WAR. AX ALLEGATION DENIED. [BY TELQGR.U"H.—OWN CORBESPOXDF.M'.] CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. j Regarding a Wellington newspaper's alie-1 gallons that the National Government is to continue after the war, with Mr. Massey as leader, the Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister for Internal Affairs, to-day said :— " There is not one word of truth in any single statement that is made in the article. The statement that in a recent speech at Auckland I broadly hinted at the National Government continuing to govern after the war has not one vestige of truth in it. As a Minister who went into the National Government with others for war purposes I have endeavoured, without friction in any way, to carry on the responsible Departments over which I have control. So far as the future is concerned, my opinion is that no permanent fusion between the Liberal and Reform parties will take place. I am opposed to any such proposal, and I sincerely liopo that when the war is over the reconstructed Liberal Party will represent the forward and progressive elements of this country, and return to the lines of Mr. Ballance and Mr. Seddon."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16331, 11 September 1916, Page 9
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