PEOPLE'S PART.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1937, Page 9

PEOPLE'S PART.

CHEERS AND MUSIC. MR. SAVAGE PLEASED. DEMONSTRATIONS IN SOUTH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Tuesday. Despite light but steady rain, Invercargill citizens turned out in force to-night to welcome the Prime Minister, the l\t. Hon. M. J. Savage, on his first official visit to Southland. Mr. Savage was accompanied by the Minister of Labour, the ?lon. H. T. Armstrong. The Ministerial party was welcomed by the member for Invercargill, Mr. W. M. C.

Denham, and by the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. Adam Hamilton, against a background of cheering and music by the Caledonian Pipe Band, the Civic Band, and the Battalion Band. Mr. Savage said that one of the outstanding features of his rather hurried trip had been the enthusiasm of the people everywhere. The receptions undoubtedly indicated that the Government was travelling in the right direction. Its job was not done yet, but it was going to do it, and the people were playing their part by giving assurances of the country's approval. Mr. Savage said he and Mr. Armstrong would be going on a trip abroad, and New Zealand could rely on its voice being heard in the councils of the nations. "We stand by our policy," he said, "and we believe that little New Zealand can repeat what it has done before by giving a lead in humanitarian legislation. If we fail it will not be through any lack of honest endeavour."