PADDY WEBB ON THE COAST

Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 447, 1 October 1919, Page 5

PADDY WEBB ON THE COAST

Speaking at th© Paramount Theatre rally on Sunday night. Mr. 11. E. Holland, M.P., mentioned that he had reftoivi'd a telegram trom Miss Anderson, thi.' .Secretary of the G_ey_uninlh. Labor I'arty, that the wi 'it'ion to Paddy Webb on his return rom Wellington had been of a m 0..; ( i.iiusiust'.c char!>el.er. "The return, d■ . idiei.." said Mr. Holland, 'actually t...J'.d Paddy Webb f-.h-orgh the si .c. r.<?.",—(Applause) "Thai/ added Mr, 1-.h-ud "is tho aiihw.'.'.v I. the people w'K- wanted tho welcome Lo i'addy tiiippr-.--- d at .ireymoulli be.aui-t., as they said, it would create disturbances. And it j tho answer to 'tiie -New Zealand Time, particularly in co-i-nection with the .scurrilous attack of that journal on Webb in its leading columns. It is t'i<- answer of the let urned soldiers aud Webb's old constituents.—(Applause.) W e shall not forget this scurrilois attack of tho so-called Liberal Party on Webb. It 'ia» l>L'€n said that tin; meting of last Sunday night was nu„ representativeu. workeis of Welling''--. It was only one of extremists. Well, .huere must be a lot of extremists about. The N«tv Zealand Times is an extremist —an extremis, in the matter of journalistic absurdity. It has _urren.dea-.ed every Liberal idea and done things enough to make Seddon and Ballance turn in their, graves. The Liberal party is as responsible as the. Ma.-sey party fori swinging Lii e jail gate... against Labor men during tree last four years. I would ratliwr have a straight-out enemy than a false i'viend w : io in the hour of crisis and danger will strike at yon with tho fangs of a .-"•pent, The Liberal party has betrayed us sufficiently and we are not going to give them a chance of doing so again in the future." —(Applause.)