WELLINGTON EAST

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1935, Page 4

WELLINGTON EAST

MR. DUNCAN OPENS

CAMPAIGN

There was; an attendance of about fifty Rejectors at the opening meeting of the Democrat candidate |£pr Wellington East, Mr. W. Duncan'^held in the Seatoun Kiosk last evening. Mr. L. A.-Whitaker presided. ■ Mr.-Duncan said that the Democrat Party had launched a lifeboat to save the people of New Zealand, and he as one of the crew was out to pull his weight. In spite of the. fact that New Zealand ,was a favoured country, blessed with plenty for all, there, were thousands of people without work and food. As a member of the City Council he had attended many deputationsto the Government on unemployment questions, but, the reception deputations had received had been most unsympathetic. The Government's action rin; setting up a , committee to deal with unemployment had been too long delayed; it should have been done four-years ago. He declared that the Forbes-Coates Government would go down into history renowned for its blundering incompetence. The people of the cities had been taxed to.help the big. farmers and. the meat companies, ;but when the Democrats were returned to office assistance would be given' tb the. honest man who knew how tol farm but was up against it: i ■ The candidate, described the' Labour Party as being worse than the Communists, as they did know where the Communists stood. He appealed' to the electors to make a 'close, study of the' Democrat programme. If they did that he was convinced they would give the party-he-represented a chance to put-.the:-policy into operation. A vote of thanks to the candidate was carried with acclamation.