ANTI-LABOUR CAMPAIGN

Grey River Argus, 15 December 1937, Page 9

ANTI-LABOUR CAMPAIGN

Auckland Professor’s Venture [Per Press Association], AUCKLAND, December 14. A new organisation, to be known as the Auckland Provincial Freedom Association, has been formed within the last few days. Prbfessor R. M. Algie, Professor of Law at Auckland University College for the past eighteen years, was asked to accept the position of organiser and has done so. The objects of the Association are described as being to arouse in the minds of electors of the Auckland Province a sense of what was stated to be an urgent necessity for maintaining principles of true democracy, and for opposing by all lawful means a growing menace of State control and Ministerial interference in agricultural and industrial affairs. Professor Algie, who has accepted the position of Organiser, has resigned from the University. The Association aims at stimulating widespread interest in political questions, and exercising constant vigilance to preserve civic liberty. The Association is opposed to the policy of the present Labour Government. Steps have already been taken to put the Association upon a sound and permanent basis. At next election it will give its support to the National Party, because the'objects that Party has in view fit in most closely with the aims and ideals of the Association. Its work, however, will not cease with the General Election. Its greatest functions will' be more or less, of a permanent nature.