LABOUR'S VOTE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 134, 9 June 1930, Page 6

LABOUR'S VOTE.

Despite your correspondent's loquacity lie' has made no attempt to prove that the New Zealand Tory party has shown since its inception that it had the welfare of the great mass of the people at heart. The dreary years of the old Continuous party is a sterile period. "They seem to think," said Mr. Seddon once in the House, "that New Zealand should be like England, where a small section of the people made all the money, the great masses having to be content to live as hewers of wood and drawers of water." When they were extinguished after getting New Zealand into an awful mess, the position was deplorable. The Balance-Seddon party after years of legislating placed New Zealand on a satisfactory footing. When the great Liberal leader died a panic set in—and the future history of New Zealand up to the time of the war was entirely one of industrial unrest. Our Tory leaders showed incapacity—even as legislative muddlers. To now say the New Zealand Conservative party was the friend of the people is simply ridiculous. In every New Zealand electorate there is a certain section of the workers found supporting Reform. I might further add that the workers of New Zealand are responsible for the existence of the three parties. How could a party that bitterly opposed every humanitarian statute be a friend of the people? HERBERT MULVIHILL.