The Pahiatua Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 1935. THE SWUNG BACK.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13105, 13 November 1935, Page 4

The Pahiatua Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 1935. THE SWUNG BACK.

In Dannevirke on Monday night. Sir Alfred -Ransom, sitting member for Pahiatua, had a bumper meeting. Any Avho may have had some misgivings about their member, or his Government had their minds completely set at rest. Sir Alfred wa,s back in ins best fighting form and those who offered interjections or held contrary views met more than their matcft. Those who imagined that seven years without a contest may have allowed the local member to become a trifle “rusty” had their minds disabused at Kohinui last evening when the Minister of Hands entered the Pahiatua end of his electorate and faced a solid and fuJly representative audience. All his customary punch was in evidence from the outset of a. vigorous address, which lasted for two hours. To attract an attendance of fifty to the Kohinui Hall for a political address is Tn itself an achievement but to hold the rapt attention of that number throughout the course of his speech without provoking so much as an interjection or one verbal question at the conclusion is a significant indication as to which direction the sympathy of the residents of that locality lie. The feeling was further emphasised when a vote of thanks and confidence in the .Nationalist candidate was carried unanimously. There was a degree of meat and substance in the workmanlike policy as laid clown by Sir Alfred Ktanscm which was largely lacking in the speeches of other party candidates given in this and outside electorates to date. However hard have been. the tilings said of the Government in the past few years now that election day approaches the swing is quietly but definitely baci to tiie Government which has fearlessly pulled the country thiough at the loss no doubt, of personal popularity hut an appreciable gain in fearless political prestige amongst those who have given adequate thought to- an analysis of the events, the legislation and the resultant improvement of the last year or so.