MR. FRASER'S TACTICS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 8

MR. FRASER'S TACTICS

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —The other evening, according to "The Post," the Hon. P. Fraser had his "attention drawn" to a remark made by Mr. Hamilton at the National Club and immediately-proceeded to distort it with: the object of showing that Mr. Hamilton was more concerned withParliamentary tactics than with the welfare of the aged and distressed. Those who read your original report of Mr. Hamilton's statement will realise that,he complained pf the tactics of the Labour Party in connection with the passage of the Social Security Bill and thejefforts of that party to put the Opposition off side. He expressed the opinion that the situation had been met by the National Party, and told the public so. Mr. Hamilton was addressing; a meeting of party workers, but he 'was so fair and above board that he made his remarks openly and they were reported in the paper. There is no talking behind closed doors about him.

But Mr. Fraser's misrepresentation of Mrs. Knox Gilmer is even more unfair. He accuses her of saying that th^ State houses were too good for the workers. What she said was that they were so expensive that workers could not afford them with the result that they were occupied by people whose need was not so great. However, one should not be too hard on Mr. Fraser, who is very perturbed at Mrs. Gilmer's entry into the fight. He and his colleagues have tried to make it appear that the mantle of the late R. J. Seddon has descended upon their Socialist shoulders and that his programme was the same as theirs. If anyone should know the outlook of Mr. Seddon it is his daughter, Mrs. Gilmer, and her repudiation of the Socialists and all their works must indeed be a bitter pill for Mr. Fraser and his colleagues.—l am, etc..

LIBERAL.