"POUNDING A SHADOW"
MR. WRIGHT'S RECORD
"1 saw a heading in the newspaper, 'Mr. Wright Hits Out.' I read .below it, and I found .Mr. Wright had merely been pounding a shadow. He had raised a bogey-man, and then proceeded to pound it as hard as he could." Thus Mr. Brindle on Thursday evening swept aside the platform efforts of his Coalition opponent in Wellington Suburbs, Mr. R. A. Wright. ' Mr. Brindle, defending Labour's consistency in Parliament and contrasting it with Mr. Wright's voting record in the House of Representatives, said: — "There are two lobbies in Parliament. Mr. Wright would like to see three, four, or perhaps many more like a Chinese puzzle so lie could wander in and out of them as he willed." Mr. Wright, he said, had voted with Labour on one or two amendments against the wage-cuts Bill, but when the Bill was finally passed Mr. Wright's vote helped to make it law.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 124, 21 November 1931, Page 15
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157"POUNDING A SHADOW" Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 124, 21 November 1931, Page 15
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