Labour’s Deputy-Leader
Mr F. Hackett, member for Grey Lynn, is to be congratulated on his election to be deputy-leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Mr Hackett has given long and useful service to both the industrial and political wings of the party. In his extensive Parliamentary experience he has served in Governments headed by Mr Fraser and Mr Nash. The party has passed over Mr Nordmeyer, which many persons of all political beliefs will regret. A popular belief that Mr Nordmeyer has the best intellect in Parliament might be challenged; but with Mr Algie removed
to the Speaker’s Chair, he is perhaps the best debater, certainly the most incisive and consistently courteous. He may be the victim of his 1958 Budget—a draconian instrument designed for circumstances for which Mr Nash and the party as a whole were as much to blame. However, the Budget was unpopular with industrial Labour: and the Labour movement is now seeking a happier association between the industrial and political wings than it has enjoyed since Mr Fraser's day. If Mr Hackett, a former trade union secretary, can bring this about he will serve his party well.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29843, 8 June 1962, Page 10
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