During the First World War, Prime Minister William Massey formed a National government with the Liberal Party, led by former prime minister, and long-time Southland member of Parliament, Joseph Ward (centre, with cigar). Robert McNab (far left) and Josiah Hanan (third from left, foreground) were also Southlanders, although in 1916 McNab represented a North Island electorate.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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Lithograph by Walter Armiger Bowring
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