LYTTELTON BY-ELECTION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 22 August 1933, Page 4

LYTTELTON BY-ELECTION

LABOUR CAMPAIGN OPENED ADDRESS BY MR HOLLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. In opening the Labour Party’s campaign in Lyttelton by-election last evening, Mr Holland, Leader of the Opposition, paid a glowing tribute to the late member, Mr James McCombs, and declared that Mrs McCombs was among the ablest women in public life in New Zealand. He "was confident that she would make history as tlie first woman to sit in the Parliament of the Dominion. Mr Holland outlined the party’s policy of industrial rehabilitation, which included a comprehensive public works scheme and large scale land settlement with planned production and guaranteed prices for primary producers, and with standard wages and shorter hours for wage workers and others. He also dealt extensively with the need for safeguarding and developing the secondary industries of the Dominion, urging that these industries were now being menaced from at least two angles, the Ottawa agreements and the cheap labour products of the East and elsewhere. At the conclusion of the Labour leader’s meeting at Lyttelton last evening a motion of thanks to Mr Holland for his address and confidence in Mrs McCombs as the Labour candidate for the constituency, was carried by acclamation. i The meeting closed with three cheers for Mrs McCombs.