OPPOSITION LEADER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22711, 25 October 1935, Page 7

OPPOSITION LEADER

TRIBUTES TO MR SAVAGE GATHERING OF SUPPORTERS (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 24. The work of Mr M. J. Savage as Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party was recognised at a gathering of members of the party in Parliament Buildings this evening. On the eve of the general election campaign members of the party took the opportunity to express their complete confidence in their leader and to extend to him their wholehearted support in the task ahead of him. They presented him with a leather brief case, suitably inscribed.

The presentation was made by Air R. Semple, who recalled Mr Savages unflinching service for the party, and who said that Mr Service had fully earned the confidence of the people throughout the Dominion. Other speakers were Mr D, Wilson, assistant secretary to the National Labour Party, Mr D. G. Sullivan and Mr P. C. Webb. Replying, Mr Savage thanked his colleagues for their expressions of confidence, and stated that without their loyalty he, as an individual, could have done nothing. He looked forward to the coming campaign as one of the most hopeful from the point of view of the Labour Party, and he gave an assurance that if the party were returned to power its full policy, as enunciated by the Labour speakers throughout the country, would be put into operation.