THE HON. MR LAURENSON IN DUNEDIN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11656, 11 June 1912, Page 2

THE HON. MR LAURENSON IN DUNEDIN.

(Peu Press Association.) Duncdin, June 10. Mr Laurenson, Minister of Labor, addressed a public meeting in Duncdin to-night on. the "Past and Future of the Progressive Party in New Zealand." The speaker opened with a drastic; attack on the Opposition press in NewZealand, and said that it made it necessary for the members of the present Government to personally lay their views before the electors. He had not come to Dunedin to reply to the Hon. J. A. Millar, but to ask the people what they meant by returning in Otago eight Opposition members out of the eleven allotted to the province. The Minister detailed the reasons whicli ho stated sent Sir Joseph r Wa.rd to th<y wall, and paid a. tribute to his statesmanship. The speaker then referred tothe legislation his Government intended to introduce, and at the close of a sympathetic hearing was unanimously given a hearty vote of-thanks for his address, and confidence in the Ministry of which he was a member.