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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19057, 9 July 1924, Page 8

“I have nothing to say about the political situation,” remarked Mr L. M. Isitt, of Christchurch, to a Standard reporter on his arrival in Palmerston North on Saturday last. Mr Isitt, it was recently announced, has definitely decided not to again seek re-election to Pariiament. His decision, Mr Isitt stated, was due to private reasons. Pressed for a statement about the political situation Mr Isitt declined to discuss the matter. “All I have to say on that subject,” he said, “ is that I have never wavered from the position I took up six yejirs ago at the 1918 elections when I thought there was a chance of the Liberal Party getting into power under the dominance of the Labour Party. I considered that that would be a very serious thing to happen, and it was then I resolved not to associate myself with any such position. I am just as strong a Liberal as ever, but so long as there is a chance of the Liberal Party gaining office under Labour domination I determined that I would not vote for the party but with the Government. I have nothing further to add. They have tried to make me talk in Lyttelton but I am not discussing the subject publicly.”