SUPPORT FOR RAILWAY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18355, 24 March 1934, Page 16

SUPPORT FOR RAILWAY

MR. SEMPLE’S VISIT YESTERDAY’S ADDRESSES Addresses were given by Mr. R. Semple, Labor M.P. for Wellington East, at Kopuawhara and Waikokopu yesterday, and an address on ‘‘The Criminal Foilres of War” will be given in tbe Majestic Theatre to-morrow, night.. There were good attendances yesterday. At Kopuawhara in the afternoon Mr. Semple spoke on railway and unemployment matters, and stated that the railway should be completed. At Waikokopu in the evening, he spoke mainly on the lines of his Gisborne address. At each meeting, votes of thanks were, accorded the speaker, and confidence expressed in the Labor Party. To-morrow night in the Majestic Theatre, Mr. Semple lectures on the follies of war. It will be illustrated with lantern slides that have been carefully selected from different parts of the world. These pictures, it is stated, strip war of its artificial glory, and expose its cruel life destroying and demoralising influences. It is 14 years since the last shot was fired in the last war, which was supposed to end war. It cost in all nearly 40,(XX),000 lives. Before the outbreak of the war in 1914, the world’s expenditure on armaments and the preparation for war was over £400,000,000 per year; today it has reached the enormous figure of £1,000,000,000. Mr. Semple will undertake to pirove that the war clouds a.-e again gathering, that the war gods are preparing for a further slaughter which threatens to destroy our civilisation. Thij lecture lias brought packed houses every where. It is non-political, and all are cordially invited.