WELLINGTON CENTRAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 72, 18 December 1919, Page 11

WELLINGTON CENTRAL

MR. P. FRASER; Mr. P. Fraser, speaking in the face of. much interruption, said that the Labour Party had reason to bo gratified at the result of the election. Labour had received a temporary set-back in BOmaquarters, but it-had also gained eomo notable victories. Mr. Berople would come again and would win. (Loud dissent and interruption.) Labour had won in Auckland. It was getting into its stride. The Liberal Party had practically disappeared, and the hght now would be between tho Tories and,the intelligent, thinking peoplo who- formed the Labour.Party. : ,' • Voices: And go slow! ' Mr. Fraser repeated that his party had done well. He called for cheers for labour, and the response wns followed by loud counter-cheers. MR. F. PIRANI. Mr. F. Pirani, speaking from the "Evening Post" platform, . thauked the electors who had supported him. ' He was noisily interrupted, and had to pause for some itime before he had any chanco of being heard. ' "I believe that you will find as a result lof the .contest that although Ihave been beaten in .the strongest Labour electorate in New Zealand, His Labour Party has been tai.ght a lesson that will last very long in their memories/' said Mr. Pirnni. "The lesson will stay in tho memories of those who think there is nb other causa' worth supporting than that of-the revolutionary Labour men—men who don't w-ant to labour, but who want to live on the labour of the poor, fools they.are deceiving. The time "will come,' and it is not. far distant, when the people of New Zealand will Bee revolutionary Labour in its proper place.". Mr. Pirani spoke under a Rtorm of hooting and jeering, and he could not be heard, except, by those in his immediate neighbourhood. "The beast, is loose to-night," he added, "but, by Jove, it will be caught when the people of New Zealand rise to a sense of their responsibilities/'