MR. W.F. MASSEY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2741, 21 February 1910, Page 4

MR. W.F. MASSEY.

TENDERED a GARDEN PART A’

rPnit Phess Association.! 1 AUCKLAND, Feb. 20. y garden' party was tendered to Mr \y* jf Massey, Deader of the Deposition bv his Franklin constituents, at the Helvetia ostrich . farm yesterday. About 200-people were P«a;ent. jn the course ot a speech, Mi. Massey said lie would not pretend to be a prophet, but he thought the time not far distant when those at present occupying tb. political, staao-tho set of political acrobats—would to told their season was at an end. A\ liat the country wanted at the present moment, was men of high/principles, who would study the interests of the Dominion m preference to their own. There was an impression abroad that those m power put their own interests before everything else. A policy of economy wu., wanted at present, and they had one of extravagance. 4he crying need was the opening up or the big areas now closed up- . ~ ~ . . Mr. F. M- B. lusher, M.P., said the present administration was not a sincere one. .Ministers to-day would be the freeholders or leaseholders, to-morrow freetraders or protectionists, Protextants or Roman Catholics, so long as they could remain in office. He 1 relieved in iTie long run Mr. Massey w•> hound to win. . . Messrs Philips and Buic-k, M.P. and others also paid tributes To Mr Massey.