THE BLACK PAMPHLET.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13424, 11 July 1911, Page 3

THE BLACK PAMPHLET.

STATEMENT BY HON. C. FOWLDS

(Per United Press Association.) ltd Oitl'A, July K). The lion. Geo. FovvlcK Minister for Education, who is at present in Rotorua tnidiuv tiu* luillis lor ii bliiiiit attack ot rheumatism, was seen by a Times’ reporter this evening in reference to a paragraph wlii'-h appeared on the oth insr. in a southern newspaper as follows: —"The-Minister, the Hon. G. I'ovvlds, Ilia; reiterated on a v.u’oiic platform the chaigc that Mr Masthe Loader of the Opposition, fathered tlie unauthorised biography of Sir Joseph Ward." Mr Fowids remarked that it seemed to him that at present the Opposition speakers and n-wapapers were prepared to i... to nay length.? in the matter of misstatements. Regarding the particular statement referred to, it was without the sij.'iitiM foundation in fact. On the contrary. what be did say, in effect, when Si aki’ig »n the matter, was that ho had never heard Air Ala-sey blamed personally for bavin" had anything to do with the inee;tion or circulation of the Black Pamphlet. hut tli.it the indictment against the Opposition generally was that, whilst tney i-?*[/,■■ it was in circulation, and that tlieiv pai-tv wcie likely to benefit from it, they took'no stops to condemn it. That was, Mr I'owlds added, onite a different statement Ironi Hie one now being circulated by the Op posit ion nev, spapers.