PRESS AND POLITICS

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 214, 10 September 1935, Page 11

PRESS AND POLITICS

LABOUR LEADER'S VIEWS. REPLY TO CRITICISM. "Before I go on with my address I want to refer to the -Auckland Star"— to.a leader which appeared in the 'Star' last Thursday!' said the Leader of the labour party, Mr. M. J. Savage, at the Town Hall last night. "It makes one doubly enthusiastic about the freedom of the air if we can't have the freedom of the Preea and it is just as well for the 'Star' that the scientists have been busy in producing alternative means of publicity while they have been sleeping. If there is any thing worth while we will be able to say it over the air. We are •going to govern this country—that means you —and we are not going to allow newspapers to do it for us. "The 'Star' has taken me to task because I moved a motion of noeonfideneo in the present Government. The best answer is an advertisement which appeared in the 'Star' on Saturday and to-day—a citizens' indignation meeting to make a united protest against unjust and unchristian social conditions. The chairman of the meeting will be the Archbishop of New Zealand, and I am glad that he is taking a stand in connection with our economic and social conditions. Other speakers are Monsiguor Holbrook, thq Rev. W. W. Averill,.Dr. E. B. Gunson and Mr. K. H. Melvin. I trust that the hall will be full to the roof. So I am killing two birds, with one stone, replying to the 'Star' and advertising to-morrow's meeting, and I do it from the bottom of my heart. I leave the rest to you."