ELECTION ADDRESSES

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1938, Page 7

ELECTION ADDRESSES

MR. TAYLOR AT KOITERANGI

RECORD GATHERING Enthusiasm was the keynote in the Koiterangi Hall, last evening, when the Nationalist candidate for the Westland seat, Mr E. B. E. Taylqr, opened his election campaign. There was an attendance of approximately 150, and the meeting was regarded as the best political gathering ever held in the district. Mr W. A. Jamieson occupied the chair, and introduced the candidate. In a speech occupying two hours, Mr Taylor criticised Labour legislation during the past three years,. and outlined the policy of the National Party. There were no interjections or interruptions, and the candidate’s speech was frequently applauded. Only one question was asked, with reference to the guaranteed price, and it was satisfactorily answered. On the motion of Mr W. M. Monk, seconded by Mr S. McKenzie Harcourt, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the candidate. Mr Taylor will address the electors of Greymouth, at eight o’clock this evening, in the Town Hall.

MR NASH ON FINANCE.. WELLINGTON, September 20. Opening his election campaign in his own constituency in Lower Hutt, last night, the Minister of Finance (Mr Nash, speaking on currency and credit, said that money was no use whatever unless there were goods behind it, bu£ money could stimulate production of goods, and that was being done in the Dominion to-day; by the way in which.the Government was using the money system. All the money needed was being provided by the Government through the Reserve Bank. x “You can go on doing that as long as you have the goods to back it up,” continued the Minister. “Not a penny we have spent on housing ‘in the Dominion came from anywhere else than the Reserve Band. If workers in their turn go on producing goods to back the money up, we can go on, but if they do not produce the goods, then the whole thing will collapse.” Mr Nash dealt at length with income tax, and said the important feature was not what amount of a man’s income was taken for taxation, but how much of his income was left for him. There was no harshness associated with the income tax in general.

MR. SEMPLE’S TOUR.

HAWERA, September 20

At Hawera, last night, the Minister of Public Works commenced a brief political tour to embrace the four centres of the Taranaki Province, with an address on the activities of the two. Departments in his charge, illustrated bv the screening of a film, depicting the old methods and the new. There was a large audience and hundreds were turned away. - . . A motion of confidence m Mr. Semple, as Minister in charge of pubPc Works, in Mr. Savage as Prime Minister in the Government, and in Hie Labour candidate, Mr. G. Ji Dug°an to contest the Patea seat against Mr H. G. Dickie, was carried almost un animously. Deputations on minor matters were received yesterday afternoon, and this morning the Minister proceeded to Opunake. A civic reception will be tendered to Mr. Semple by the Central Taranaki local bodies to-morrow after* noon at Stratford, where he speaks in the evening. He is also speaking at New Plymouth on Thursday, and. is returning to Wellington by air on Friday. MR. LEE AT GREY LYNN. AUCKLAND, September 19. Opening his election ca “ pa^ n p Grey Lynn to-night, Mr. J. A.. Lee, Par liamentary Under-Secretary in Charge of Housing, addressed a large audience. It was estimated at eight hundred, b the hall was crowded to the doors There were people sitting on the front of the platform. Many other people waited outside, and they heard the address through a- loud speaker systelMr. Lee was given an enthusiastic reception, the meeting concluding with cheers, after a vote of confidence in Mr. Lee had been passed, and the audience had pledged itself to endeavour to secure his return at the forthcoming election. There were only two interjectors, but they were persistent. Early interruptions came from a man near the front of the hall, who challenged the speaker’s claims in respect of the Labour Government’s treatment of disabled returned soldiers. After an exchange of words with Mr. Lee, however, the rnterjector subsided. Later an argument developed between the interjector and another man, and a series of remarks culminated in a scuffle. An elderly man, who was taking no part, was struck on the nose with a walking stick. Bleeding profusely he was assisted to the ante-ioom, while the interjector then left the hall, at the request of Mr. Lee. The police had been summoned, but the two officers who entered the hall merely conducted the man outside, and took no other action. The second interjector made his presence felt later in the meeting. He drew from Mr. Lee spirited references to those people who “sniped from the dark, and were afraid to come inside and show themselves.” Mr. Lee reviewed the work of the Labour Government. He expressed his confidence that, not only would he be Victorious in the election, but that Labour would achieve a sweeping victory. There was no doubt, he said, about the housing shortage, and for every one who got a house, there were 99 deserving ones who did not. He continued that the Government was, how ever, going on and on with housing until the needs of the people were met. Mr. Lee said that it was not claimed that Labour had completed its task, but he held that the Party was entitled to a further term in office to have the opportunity of doing all that, it had set out to accomplish.

REMUERA

AUCKLAND, September 19.

The statement that the Labour Party intended to abolish the Charitable Aid Boards for ever from New Zealand probably within the next 12 months, was made by Mrs. M. M, Dreaver, the