THE PREMIER'S TOUR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13546, 25 November 1914, Page 5

THE PREMIER'S TOUR.

CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The. Prime Minister addressed a packed audience m the Opera House tonight, hundreds of 'people being unable to obtain - admission. Mr Massey received a good reception, though a section of the audience at times created an uproar,, leading the Mayor, who presided, to on three or four, occasions appeal to the rowdy element to give the Prime : Minister fair play. Mr Massey spoke -. generally on * the lines of his previous addresses of the past week or two, He challenged anyone to prove, either by means of Hansard or public print, that any member of the Government had ever slated that, the Government would slop borrowing. What the Government had done was to spend borrowed money to the best purpose. He gave the statement that the Government .had increased taxation by 13s Id per head an emphatic contradiction. He claimed that the Government had fulfilled many of its platfdrm pledges, aiid would fulfil the reniainder as soon as it possibly could. Mr Massey' challenged, the New Zealand Times ; or the Lyttelton Times' to say that he used public money for his own private • benefit m connection with the Waiuku railway proposal. He would give them tho opportunity to say it m the Supreme Court. '• A motion of thanks to Mr Massey and confidence m the Government was de- 1 clared carried.