CONTESTED BY-ELECTION
Sir,— Miss Howard states that the Labour Party refrained from contesting the Temuka, Hauraki, and MidCanterbury seats, out of a desire for political unity. It is pertinent to recall, however, that these vacancies were filled only about two months after the swing of some 1700 votes to the National Party in the Bay of Plenty election had plainly intimated the trend of opinion in rural electorates. Miss Howard conveniently forgets to mention the Waipawa by-election, in which the Labour Party, at the gravest period of the war, when Britain stood alone, insisted on putting up a candidate for a country constituency which had been won comfortably by the National Party less than two years before. —Yours, r’;., P.D.S. January 27, 1943.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23858, 29 January 1943, Page 6
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