DEFENCE PROGRAMME
To The Editor Sir, —The sentiments expressed by Mr Hickey, Labour candidate for Awarua at Mr Morgan Williams’s meeting at Woodlands on Saturday night, give food for serious thought. I would like to ask him a few questions now, as I could not make myself heard at the meeting and then a Labour official moved a motion of thanks and the meeting closed: 1. Has the ambitious military programme outlined by Mr Hickey the approval of his revolutionary socialist Government? 2. If so, how does he reconcile this with Labour’s “peace at any price” policy? 3. Does Mr Hickey propose to use costless credit to pay for the antiaircraft guns and underground shelters he proposes to sprinkle so liberally around Southland, or does he propose to raid the Consolidated Fund?—Yours, COMIC OPERA, February 22, 1938. [lt is stated that Mr J. E. Hickey, of Woodlands, is not the Labour candidate for Awarua but only a possible candidate. This letter was referred to Mr Hickey, but he did not wish to comment on it.]
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Southland Times, Issue 23443, 25 February 1938, Page 5
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