MR FORBES WELL PLEASED

Evening Star, Issue 20959, 25 November 1931, Page 8

MR FORBES WELL PLEASED

ADVICE TO COALITION SUPPORTERS ROLL UP ON POLLING SAY [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 25, The Hon. G. W. Forbes arrived from the South Island this morning. Ho said ho had been extremely pleased with the evidence ho had seen on all sides of the solid support for the Coalition Government. There was a widespread determination to stand by the Government. The rowdiness at public meetings caused by associates of the Labour Party in their attempts to prevent Coalition candidates speaking was only tending to strengthen the determination of many electors to rally round the Government on polling day. He regarded the outlook as very favourable for the return of the Government to office, but supporters of the Government should not take it for granted that victory was secure, and should roil up to the polling booths on election day, because the Labour Party was out to get as big an aggregate vote as possible, so that < they could claim in analysing the voting that the support for the Labour Party had increased and that the Government’s policy was unpopular. With that object in view the Labour Party was putting up candidates where they had not a ghost of a show. He urged Coalition supporters to make the Doll a large one, and expressed the hope that the Labour Party would not be able to make such a claim because of the neglect of the people, who did not fhink it necessary to vote.