OAMARU ELECTION.
MR. WILFORD'S LACONIC RR
PLIES
(special to the Herald.* CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Passing through Christchurch to Wellington: last night, on his way from Oamaru, tho leader of the Opposition, Mr. Wilford, stated to a reporter that he had no comments to make upon the result of the Oamaru election. "Do you "regard your win there as more than balancing the defeat at Tauranga?" asked the reporter, and Mr. Wilford, after asking several questions as to what tho query actually meant, did not actually answer the question, but made a. brief statement to the effect that at Tauranga the reformers had slipped back by several hundreds of votes, and in Oamaru the Liberals had clearly appreciably increased their numbers.. "Do you think the Liberals are any nearer office now than they were before," pursued the pressman. "Br—r—r—r," was tho reply. "If you can put that into print that is my answer." In conclusion the reporter asked Mr. Wilford if he could expand his allusion in Oamaru to the -rebirth of Liberalism. "Not so that your editor could understand," was Mr. Wilford's smiling reply.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16116, 3 May 1923, Page 8
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184OAMARU ELECTION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16116, 3 May 1923, Page 8
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