LABOUR PARTY PLEASED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 183, 4 August 1932, Page 3

LABOUR PARTY PLEASED.

A GOVERNMENT DEFEAT,

NEW MEMBER'S SUPPORT.

" That is what the Maoris think of the Government," said Mr. W. J. Jordan, M.P. for Manukau, and president of the New Zealand Labour Party, this morning, when commenting on the result of the Southern Maori by-election "The Government has used the names of both its leaders in an appeal to the Maori electors to return the Government nominee, and they have replied by giving to the Government candidate less than 20 per cent of the votes cast." Mr. Jordan said that the successful candidate, Mr. E. T. Tirikatene, was well known for his opposition to the Government, and in the House he would undoubtedly vote with the Labour party. Tho result of the by-election was a distinct Government defeat, and, now that the policy of the Government was known to the people, if a general election were held it would undoubtedly result in a similar defeat of the Government throughout the Dominion. Tho Government was discredited, and was administering a policy which it had concealed from°the people, and which had never been acceptable to the Dominion.