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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 5 (August 1, 1934)

The two Crusaders

The two Crusaders.

I have a memory of Mr. Ballance as was in his early days of the Premiership, when he and Sir John
(Photograph taken by Lord Bledisloe) Lake Mspourika (near Waiho Gorge) and the Franz Josef Glacier, South Island, New Zealand.

(Photograph taken by Lord Bledisloe)
Lake Mspourika (near Waiho Gorge) and the Franz Josef Glacier, South Island, New Zealand.

page 20 page 21 (then Mr.) McKenzie visited Auckland and foregathered sociably one evening with a party of newspaper men. They were a burly pair, and cheerful. John Ballance was probably suffering even then from the physical ills that carried him off, but he always man-fully tried to show a happy face to the world. Ballance was not a small man by any means, but the big broad-shouldered Highlander towered a head above him. One would like to have seen him in the tartan of his clan tossing the caber at the Highland sports—or wielding the claymore in a charge on the Sassenach foe. But Jock McKenzie's claymore was the Liberal party's land legislation that cut asunder the too-huge estates of the sheep-graziers, and gave opportunity to the landless men, the men 'who longed for a life on the land, and obtained their heart's desire.