Labour gets set for elections

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34126, 12 April 1976, Page 1

Labour gets set for elections

The Labour Party ini Christchurch is already 1 preparing for the 1977 local body elections and I the 1978 General Elec- ] tion. I About 35 key organisers ■ » from a H electorates in the

I greater Christchurch area l I discussed tactics for the elec-. tions at a seminar on Satur-' i day. i The seminar, organised by; the Christchurch Labour l Metropolitan Representation | Committee, drew up a de-; I tailed plan for the local body elections. ' A spokesman for the com-! mittee (Mr H. A. Clarke) said i yesterday that most party members were confident that a Labour City Council would be returned next year. The party’s election campaign would begin when the committee had approved the* plan. On the forthcoming Gen-1 eral Election, Mr Clarke said - that most of the people at, ■ the seminar felt that Labour] ; organisations in all elector-' ates should start preparing: > now for the polls rather than ; wait until 1978, I The seminar briefly dis- ; cussed the iast General Eleci tion. Mr Clarke said that no one reason had been found for Labour’s defeat. “What we found was that j it had not so much to do j with more money or better organisation, but with better communication both within the party and with the pub- i lie,” he said.