DR. JAMES WALLIS
hasalso had previous experience in New Zealand politic?. Has been in turn Presbyterian parson, farmer and M.H.B. Some ten years ago he got kicked out of politics, chiefly because he had more common sense and candour than waß pleasing to the electors. He is from the • north countree,' is as shrewd as they make them, with a good fund of dry wit, joined to an intellect more vigorous than acute. He is, in fact, so Btupid as to denounce land nationalisation as a breach of the Decalogue, though the author of that code introduced land laws which were a hundred times more open to that charge than the wildest dream of the land nationalists Dr. Wallis boldly comes out as opposed to the Labour party's demands, and this of itself will gain him large support. He will act on the square, and according to his not very brilliant lights— not to mention his liver, which is active. I fancy he would be an acquisition to the Skinflint party, and I should not be surprised to find him elected.
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Observer, Volume X, Issue 622, 29 November 1890, Page 3
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181DR. JAMES WALLIS Observer, Volume X, Issue 622, 29 November 1890, Page 3
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