NATIONAL PARTY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 July 1938, Page 4

NATIONAL PARTY.

ME. G. A. MONK AT IHAKARA. Over seventy of the residents of Ihakara met at the local hall to meet Mr. G. A. Monk, the National candidate for the Otaki electorate, at a social evening on Thursday last. Mr. S. A. Broadbelt, who took the chair, said that their visitor needed no introduction. If any man had served on local bodies with more sincerity arid distinction than Mi’. Monk, he iiad yet to hear of him.

In the course of a short address, Mr

Monk, stressed two points: the Labour Party were never tired of telling how good times were in the Dominion, as though the country had never seen prosperous times before. He ventured to say that the decade from 1920-30 saw times superior to those now being enjoyed. The slump period apparently began the year No. 1 in their calendar If the Socialists held a fool-proof plan to obviate any depression, they should be ashamed of their crocodile tears of tire want and misery during that time, and it showed callousness in the highest degree to allow' the suffering through those years when they had a cure. The Labour Party had been asked to help form a National Government and had refused. Referring to the Minister of Public Works (Hon. R. Semple) and his outcry about railways begun and stopped, he "would remind Mr.' Semple that the Government that j stopped those works was kept in office ’ bv the Labour vote.

During the evening several items were rendered and a dainty supper was provided by the ladies. Cheers for the candidate closed the. proceedings.