PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXII, Issue 15441, 31 August 1943, Page 3

PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS

ELECTION CAMPAIGN OPENED. Electric Telegram. —P/ess Association WELLINGTON, August 30. The Labour Government’s record in nearly eight years of office was the theme of an address given, tonight by the Prim© Minister (Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) when opening the Labour election campa : gn before a packed house in St. John’s Ambulance Hall, Wellington. Mr Eraser spoke for two hours and announced that Labour’s policy would bo made public, in the next few days. There was a certain amount., of opposition and interjection but only a dozen hands were raised in opposition to the motion of confidence in Mr Fraser and the Government carried by an overwhelming majority at the conclusion. Mr Fraser received avociferous welcome as he entered the hall accompanied by tlie chairman. Mr J. O. Johnson.

Mr Fraser said that after eight years of- Labour Administration lie could make the claim that no Government had copferred greater benefits on tlie people or had interpreted the mind and heart of democracy in peace and war than had the Labour Government. He asked the people for a vote of confidence and approval of the Government’s direction of the w'ar effort and a vote of confidoneo and approval to go on prosecuting the war to the utmost, for that was the most vital task of all till victory was achieved.