MR FRASER’S TOUR

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24028, 17 August 1943, Page 4

MR FRASER’S TOUR

—■ ♦ ADDRESS AT KAIKOHE (P.A.) KAIKOHE, August 16. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) began a three days’ tour of the Bay of Islands ' electorate to-day, when he formally opened a native school at Waiomio, and the Kawakawa Consolidated School. He delivered a political address at Kaikohe to an audience of several hundred. Explaining that the Labour Party’s election campaign would be opened in Wellington on August 30, Mr Fraser devoted most of his speech to a review of the Government’s eight years’ record, emphasising the social betterment it had brought about. He denied the National Party’s allegation that Labour had forced the country into an election, but . declared that the Opposition's action in disrupting the national war administration made an election inevitable. Mr Fraser received an attentive hearing and a vote of thanks. In Italian Prison Camps “In our few glimpses of the outside world we found that the civilian population was very friendly towards us,” said Driver L. W. Rowsell, of Whangarei, who. after nearly two years in Italian prison camps, has been repatriated under the protected personnel scheme. "The attitude of some of the guards was in marked contrast. They would not let us sing or whistle in the camp. Even if a concert was in progress and the National Anthem, or, for that matter, any patriotic song, was being sung, the officers, who regarded themselves as censors, would stop us.”