MR HOWARD ELLIOTT

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11876, 9 July 1924, Page 7

MR HOWARD ELLIOTT

OPINION OF LABOUR LEADER.

The hon. member for Stratford (Mi R, Master?), stated Mr H. E. Holland in the .course* of tbe Address-in-Reply debate last night, had referred to the Reform attacks on tbe loyalty of the Liberal Party; -and he (Mr Holland) thought that that attack was an unfair one. But he had said nothing about: the equally unfair attack on the loyalty of the Labour Party. The hon. member for Stratford had described the Prim© Minister as the bosom friend of Mr Howard Elliott: and, if that was the caso, he was the bosom friend of the most disloyal mau in the country—a man who aid not hesitate to attack the King on his throne in language which, if issued by the “New Zealand Worker” or the “Grey River Argus,” would land the editors in the dock. Yet the Liberal Party bad at various elections in various districts joined with Howard El liott to fight Labour. The Liberal (Party and press never hesitated to attack the loyalty of the Labour Party. Mr W. D. Lysnar (Gisborne): ’Do you say the Labour Party is loyal? Mr Holland: The Labour Piarty is more loyal than those profiteers who refused to sell their wool when the wool was wanted by tbe Imperial authorities during the war. 1 Labour momoers: Hear, hear. Hear, hear.