IN FULL SWING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 21 September 1938, Page 13

IN FULL SWING.

WELLINGTON CAMPAIGN.

BIG MEETINGS ADDRESSED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, thie day. The election campaign ie now in full swing in Wellington, and most candidates are actively enguged in addressing full meetings throughout their electorates.

Mr. Will Appleton, National party candidate for Wellington Central, in opening his campaign, contended that the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, was claiming credit for what

actually had been done by the Reeerve Bank, and he characterised Labour's guaranteed price plan as a fraud and a fake as far as the dairy farmer was concerned.

Mr. 11. K. Combs, Labour candidate for Wellington Suburbs, expressed the 1 opinion that if the country wanted national superannuation, social security and nation;)l health services it would have to vote Labour into office. If it did not want them, the National party should be returned, because it etated that it would not operate the Social Security Act.

Mr. C. H. Chapman, Labour candidate for Wellington Xorth, in opening his campaign, reviewed the Labour Government's administration, stressing the decrease in unemployment figures during the last three veers, and also the fact that the total wages had risen from £;->7,000,000 in 1935 to £100,000,000 in 15)38.

Mr. W. D. Barker, National candidate for Wellington Eaet, who is opposing the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, in addressing a noisy meeting, criticised the Government's taxation policy. He etated that the issues of vital importance were a return to financial stability, a return of labour to its legitimate channels of employment and a policy of political economy which would ensure financial stability and would not force up coste.

INTERJECTOBS SILENCED.

(From Our Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Met early with organised interruption, some noisy, abusive and personal, Mr. O. C. Mazengarb, Nationalist candidate for Wellington Suburbs, fought back in a vigorous spech to 900 people at Lower Hutt, to curb the interjections to the efforts of a few individuals.

The hell wae packed, and several hundred people had to stand. At the beginning a group of some 50 persons at the rear of the hall commenced rowdy heckling.

"If you disagree, why can't you listen with respect to the charges made against the Labour party?" Mr. Mazengarb challenged the interjectors. "I have noticed here and in 30 other electorates where I have spoken that ae soon as a speaker reaches a point that it in impossible for Labour opposition to deal with, the interruptions begin to distract the attention of fair-minded listeners."

The meeting lasted three hours, and a hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mr. Mazengarb by acclamation.

INDEPENDENT'S ATTITUDE.

(From Our Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The statement that he was afraid to truet Labour with the government of the country any longer, for the reason that the Prime Minister had said the party had only started on the journey, and its policy was going to be carried out to the letter, was made by Mr. R. A. Wright, Independent candidate for the Wellington West electorate, addressing an audience of friends and supporters. Mr. Wright said he did not know what the end would be. Labour would socialise everything.

It wae generally thought about Wellington that he had the easiest win in the whole of New Zealand. That might be so, but he would not share that optimism. This election would not be fought on personalities, but on whether the Government was to stay in office or not. The contest was going to be a keen one, and a fairly close one. He thought he was going to win, but he wae taking no chances. In urging the elector* to record their vote* in rain, hail or' sunshine, Mr. Wright said the other side was industrious and vigilant, and never loat * vot*.