Mr Nordmeyer’s Visit To City

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30736, 28 April 1965, Page 13

Mr Nordmeyer’s Visit To City

The success of the Labour Party in the British elections was bound to have some effect on the New Zealand Labour Partv’s chances in the General Election next year, said Mr A. H. Nordmeyer, the Leader of the Opposition, in Christchurch yesterday.

Mr Nordmeyer still had a few feathers clinging to his coat tail after touring a mattress factory in his meet-the-people campaign. The rest had been carefully blown off him by the factory manager, using a compressed air hose. Mr Nordmeyer said he believed his party’s chances of winning the next election were very good indeed. There was growing dissatisfaction with the present Government and with its failure to grapple with the country’s problems—particularly its economic and financial problems.

He said the total impact of the British Labour Party’s success would depend on the work the British Government was able to do. So far it had done very well in adverse circumstances.

Mr Nordmeyer declined to name the Labour members of Parliament who would make up the Cabinet if Labour became the next New Zealand

Government. He said the party was not favourably disposed to the idea of a shadow Cabinet, but it must be obvious to the public that a number of Labour members had demonstrated their fitness for ministerial rank.

This is Mr Nordmeyer’s first active campaigning in Christchurch. He has already toured Otago, Southland, South Canterbury, the West Coast. Motueka, and Hamilton. After this week in Christchurch he will continue his campaign in Auckland. He visited five factories yesterday, and addressed a public meeting in the Labour Hall, Spreydon, last evening. Today he will visit another five factories and speak at another public meeting in Rangiora.

On Friday Mr Nordmeyer will inspect more factories and also the University of Canterbury at Ham. He will speak at a public meeting in the Wairakei School Hall, Fendalton, and then at the Aldrcd Hall, St. Albans.