LABOUR IN EDEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 252, 24 October 1925, Page 14

LABOUR IN EDEN.

SIR JAS. PARR CRITICISED. • MINISTER'S DESPERATE POSITION. , A meeting which crowded the Henderson Public Hall was addressed last evening by Mr. M. J. Savage, Labour M.P. for Auckland West, and Mr. H. S. R. Mason, the selected Labour candidate for Eden. Mr. Savage dealt mainly with land and finance, replying to alleged misrepresentations of the party's land policy. Mr. Mason replied to the "excuses" wade on behalf of .the Reform party relative to the proposal for a reduction of 7/0 in ■wages to provide a fund for large families. The Prime Minister had said in his election manifesto that the Government was considering , proposals in tie matter, and now Reformers said it was vnfair" for Labour to suggest that t"iis ■was the proposal the Government mil considering; but the Government could not point, to any other proposal that nail been put forward. The Prime Minister's ■words did not mean anything of they did not-mean that the proposal for deduction of moneys from wages was being considered. . Now the Prime Ministei had declared there would be no deduction, but only as a result of the T.alj jui party's exposure of the real nature oi the scheme. Mr. Mason also strongly protested against the action of Sir James Parr in telling audiences in smaller country places, where the truth might not be known, that the words "land nationalisation" were in big at the head of the Labour party's printed platform, ■when neither of those words was there. A Minister of Education could not pleail that he could not read the platform, and such methods of conducting an election campaign showed how desperate was the Minister's position, 'and to what lengths he was prepared to go to retain his seat, finch methods were reprehensible to all self-respecting people, and the candidate asked electors not to let it be said that they were to give encouragement to such methods. At the close a questioner stated that our James Parr had written the Town ■Board saying that all parties, including i,oi; * *°? r me,nbers - were against the enahi M ai " S WOlle >' to bodies to Mr Say m tO h S m ™rkers' homes. h state ™«" a most insistent in theh ff°"l lnembeis ™ re advances,. ' t0 get mel> tial sum 'to larltv it substa"it_ " ar «-J if he could not provt A resolution tino i i majority E* 1 a larg, Malon. no ilr on various .grounds,' and evni • . raen na tion at the James Parr in ™ißrep resent Si ing of the Labour; party, putf^^ ft