LABOUR PARTY IN THE COMING ELECTIONS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 July 1911, Page 5

LABOUR PARTY IN THE COMING ELECTIONS.

ITS INTENTIONS AND HOPES. AUCKLAND, This Day. Mr T. Walsh, secretary of the Auckland Labour Party, has just returned from a tour south with Professor Mills, the American lecturer. , Mr Walsh has been making diligent enquiry during his travels of the prospects of the Labour Party insofar as the coming Parliamentary elections are concerned, and he says that everywhere he finds the party confident of success at the polls. It is not intended to put up candidates indiscriminately for every seat, but to concentrate the efforts of the party to ensure the return of candiates where there seems a reasonable possibility of success. Christchurch will be the only city where every seat will be contested by straight out Labour men, and the party is very sanguine of success in view of the big win they recently had in securing the election of Mr T. E. Taylor as Mayor. Mr G. R. Whiting, president of the Trades Council, will be one of those offering for election. In Dunedin there will probably be two or three candidates seeing Parliamentary honours under the Labour banner, and in Wellington there will be at least one other Labour candidate besides Mr M’Laren. On the West Coast the party is preparing for battle, and it is likely that Sir Arthur Guinness will be opposed by a knight of Labour. At Masterton Mr A, W. Hogg will have to fight for his seat against both Liberal' and Opposition candidates, and at Napier Mr M'Kenzie, secretary of the Drivers’ Union, will seek to oust the sitting Mr Vigor Brown. At Palmerstoii North it is expected that Mr Robert M‘Nab will defeat the present member, Mr Buick, and the Labour Party ■ ifj backing the ex-Mini'ster in his campaign. In the Palmerston district, he adds, Mr M'Nab’s supporters already see him ocupying the position of Prime Minister. At Waihi there is some talk of Mr Parry, president of the Miners* Union, coming out, but the task of defeating the present member for Ohinemuri (Mr H. Poland) is admitted to-be a big one. In Auckland, it is go far the intention of the Labour Party to run only one candidate, Mr M„ .J. Mack, secretary of the Society of Railway Servants, who will contest the Parnell seat against Mr F. Lawry, M.P.