ELECTIONS WANTED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20568, 30 May 1941, Page 4

ELECTIONS WANTED

DEMOCRATIC LABOUR APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT STATEMENT OF. INTENTION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this clay. The view, that because of the prevailing uncertainty in New Zealand on the question of the elections and the dispatching of Ministers overseas, the Government should make a definite statement about whether the general election is to be held this year, is expressed ft: a statement issued by the national secretary of the Democratic Labour Party, Mr. F. M. Earle, which announces a -.second list of approved Parliamentary 4 candidates for the party. The statement adds: “The Democratic Labour Party believes that, short of a state of extreme emergency in the Pacific, a general election should be held this year and that citizens should be given the opportunity of expressing themselves on this country’s overseas commitments of man-power, war taxation, development of local manufacturing industry, and other vital matters. Democratic Labour holds that the desire o l individuals to retain office or to secure office without democratic endorsement is a betrayal of the principles for which gallant New Zealanders are to-day fighting overseas.” The candidates who have been approved • for selection ballots to be held in each electorate when the date of the general election is announced are: Messrs. L. A. Wheatley. R l . C. B. Taylor, Auckland; T. W. Dick and R. C. Malcolm, Wellington: P. Adds, Petone; D. S. Chisholm, L. H. Booth, D. R. Creswell, Te Ari Pitama, D. C. Davie and D. S. Nicholson, Christchurch.