THE PRIME MINISTER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23542, 4 July 1938, Page 11

THE PRIME MINISTER

ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND SPONTANEOUS RECEPTION (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND. July 2, A cheering crowd oi! supporters warmly welcomed the Prime Minister (Mr M. J. Savage) on his arrival at the railway station this morning. It was a spontaneous and informal greeting. in which the Mayor (Sir Ernest Davis) and the local Labour leaders took part. • Mr Savage, who was accompanied by Mr C. A. Jeffery, his chief private secretary, Mr R. Riley, of the Prime Minister’s Department, and Mr D. Wilson, M.L.C., secretary of the New Zealand Labour Party, entered upon a strenuous round of engagements. f Other arrivals were the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr W. E. Parry), and the Under-secretary in Charge of Housing (Mr J. A. Lee), both of whom attended the opening of the Orakei School. ’ IN HOLIDAY MOOD i LABOUR SOCIALS ATTENDED.; tPea United Press Association) .<• AUCKLAND, July 3. I Pleasure at being able to relax front his ordinary duties was expressed by the Prime Minister when he visited two Labour Party social gatherings last night before attending the professional wrestling bout at the Town Hall, where he received an ovation. , Mr Savage spent half an hour at the weekly dance of the Grey Lynn branch of the party at the Masonic Hall, and later he met over 500 supporters who were present at the weekly social gathering of the Auckland Labour ReEentation Committee and the Labour Club at the club’s rooms. “You will know, you are better off than you were three years ago,” said Mr Savage, in a short address to those who gave him a cheerful welcome at the Grey Lynn branch’s dance. “Id many cases people are better off than they have ever been, and in others there is still room for improvement, but everybody knows that they are on the upgrade. Before another three or four years are over we will have wrought a transformation that, fewr people can realise. Nothing can stop us except you, and I do not think that you will do that."—(Cheers.) At the Labour Club Mr Savage re< ferred to the wonderful reception given him during his recent tours of the dis? tricts in the south of the North Island.