"A SPENT FORCE"
MINISTER AND MR. ALGIE
MR. FRASER'S COMMENT
"My attention has been called lo a statement made by Mr. Algie. professed anti-Government agitator, at Remuera last evening, concerning my comment on the Te Awamutu women's meeting at which, apparently, a resolution was passed opposing the maternity benefits," said the Minister of Health (the Hon. P. Fraser) today.
"Mr. Algie's lachrymose condition and simulated shoddy chivalry will not deceive anybody," declared Mr. Fraser. "Drowning as a publicist, he is snatching frantically at anything and everything he imagines may turn out to be an anti-Labour straw. "In regard to his weak joke about a challenge to myself to debate with him, I have only to comment that I cannot afford to waste time on a hopelessly spent force. The time is long past for taking Mr. Algie seriously. Today he is merely the greatest disappointment the Nationalists have suffered." ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 139, 15 June 1939, Page 10
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