LABOUR NOT KEEN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 283, 3 November 1925, Page 8

LABOUR NOT KEEN.

ON PALMERSTON SEAT. MR NASH TWITS THE PARTY. “I could not understand the want of keenness on the part of the Labour Party as regards the Palmerston seat this election,” stated Mr J. A. Nash in the course of his address at Terrace End last night, in referring to some observations ho made lato in the last session. He had, he said, then twitted »ie party about their lack of interest" in sending representatives to speak here. “They have left us right out of it this year, although they certainly did send Mr Peter Eraser along,” he stated. Mr Fraser, he continued, was the man who refused to sign the address of welcome to the Prince of Wales and the man who had stated that the Labour movement in New Zealand was part and parcel of the Russian Soviet movement. A voice: He ought to know. Mr Nash: Yes. Peter Fraser has more brains than all tho rest of the Labour Party put together. Proceeding, Mr Nash said that four of the five Labour candidates who had stood in Palmerston North had been “imported.” By that he did not mean to sav imported from another country but from another electorate and it seemed strange that they could not find a suitable local representative. It was indeed a pity that they had so misled Mr Holland as to tell him that there was to be a Labour victory at Palmerston tins year. It Mr Hodgens had been so certain tliajt Labour was going to win why had ho not stood again? But that was the policy of the Labour Party—once a candidate was defeated he was “out.”