CORRESPONDENCE

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 15, 6 September 1928, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE

"NOTHING- TO OPFER" (To the Editor). ; Dear Sir, —I am a worker and a new -arrival from the old land^ called by .New Zealanders "a, Honiie", and attended the Labour Rally at Moera in the new Settlement at the Hutt to hear -a Labour member of Parliament here named Mr J. Lee of Auckland and the Labour Candidate for Hutt, Mr Nash, who I am informed is Se< rotary of the Labour Council in this cuuntry. I have attended many Labour Rallies in Scotland and thought that perhaps • the meeting would enable me to get some information about New Zealand policies. I arrived early thinking that the residents would flock in their numbers to hear these gentlemen but to my surprise the hall was never more than a quarter full while the deadly dullness of the proceedings was past description. Mr Lee, I am told, is the humourist of the Labour Movement in Parliament and perhaps my Scotch ancestry caused me to miss his points. He had a lot of photographs and walked up and down intensely pleased with himself and took up no end of time talking about the Government but never making a single suggestion by which we could get employment or by which the country could be advanced. The "whole audience with me seemed to sink into gloom as he proceeded and when he finished Mr Nash proceeded to say a few words. He also is without hope and .sees nothing but trouble ahead. Certainly a very inspiring picture. Mr presented the very "light" and Mr Nash the -*■•shadS " of of the evening discourse. At the end of the evening we were asked to stay behind and form a committee for Mr Nash. I went as a worker to hear him and if convinced to help as I am sure many others *did but I have determined to withhold piy support until I hear the other candidate. The statement made \n the hall that a subscription h^.d to be paid to ioin the Movement caused some of the few who had decided to remain behind •to move quietly away, and I am not surprised. Has the Labour Party nothing to offer the Workors of "practical -advantage to them —I am etc, a VTOnt) v 'b'-p