OAMARU ELECTION
MR WILFORD NOT COMMUNICATIVE. (Special to the Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 2. Passing through Christchurch to-night on his way to Wellington from Oamaru, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Wilf ord,"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. Mr Wilfcrd, after asking several questions a£ to what the 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-rr-rr-rr” was the 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 “Be-birth of Liberalism.” “Not so that your editor could understand,” was Mr Wilfcrd’s smiling rep*y.
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Southland Times, Issue 18931, 3 May 1923, Page 5
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181OAMARU ELECTION Southland Times, Issue 18931, 3 May 1923, Page 5
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