THE LABOUR PARTY

Southland Times, Issue 19518, 18 May 1922, Page 5

THE LABOUR PARTY

MB HOLLAND AT WELLINGTON. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 17. Mr H.‘ E. Holland, M.P., gave an address to-night under the auspices of the Labour Representations Committee on the policy of the Labour Party. He said the main political plank of the Labour Party was proportional representation. As soon as the Labour Party attained to power it would carry an electoral law which would secure to the Labour Party and to its enemies a just measure of representation. At the conclusion of the speech, which was generally on the lines of Mr Holland’s previous addresses, a motion moved by Mr McKenzie and seconded by Mr Combs, secretary of the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association was unanimously carried: “That this meeting of citizens expresses its confidence in the Parliamentary Labour Party and the policy it advocates, and desires to put on record its appreciation of the great fight put up by the Party against the Government’s wage and salary reduction proposal. Mr Combs cordially thanked the Parliamentary Labour Party for the stand it made in January last on behalf of the public servants, who he declared had no other friends in Parliament,