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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26514, 31 August 1951, Page 7

MESSAGE TO ELECTORS OF WAIMATE ELECTORATE

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Dear Elector, I am proud to be standing in the interests of all the people as a Labour candidate in 1951, and I am pleased and proud to be standing for Waimate, for I have lived and worked in the electorate all my life. It is a pleasurable duty to pay a tribute to those who have pioneered the Labour movement and who, down the years, have blazed the trail and paved the way for us. This is the first time I have stood for Parliament but other Labour men have preceded me and helped to make my victory possible. I would especially mention Mr Roy Davidson who put up such a splendid fight at the last, so recent, election only a year and nine months ago. I and my colleagues truly welcome this opportunity of coming thus early before the electors. It is an unexpected pleasure. We intend to capitalise on the Government’s failure to carry out its promises, to cure inflation, lower the, cost of living, make the pound go further: to solve the housing problem: to rehabilitate the servicemen; to reduce taxation and Government expenditure generally; to govern in the interests of all the people. In every respect things have worseqfd instead of improving. The Tories have proved themselves unfit to govern and have tossed In the towel. And now. being without argument or excuse they attack the other side, employing a besmirching campaign and raising the Communist menace as a blind.

They must not imagine they can choose their own battleground. If Mr Holland thinks he is going to score the same sort of victory over the people generally that he scored over the militant unionists, he has another think coming. We hold our British liberties and traditions too dear to hand him a "blank cheque.” The job ahead, both national and international, is too big for him and his crew, and they know it. The future of this country, both at home and abroad, must be placed in the hands of men who have proved their' ability and worth with a passionate, practical loyalty to this country and the Motherland. A. G. BRADDICK. —Advt.