HIS OWN WAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 507, 9 November 1928, Page 13

HIS OWN WAY

MR. CHALMERS'S POLITICS MEETING AT WHAKATANE (Special to THE SUN) y.IAKATANE, Thursday. Claiming that he was mentally and temperamentally different from the average politician, Mr. D. C. Chalmers, Labour candidate for Tauranga, addressed a meeting of 200 people here this evening. Mr. W. Sullivan, Mayor of Whakatanc. presided. Mr. Chalmers said he had received criticism from members of his own party who Advised him not to be “a silly ass,” but to talk politics. They did not put it that way, but he knew what they meant. He could not change his brain and wished to be allowed to approach politics in his own way. The candidate maintained that the Labour platform was sensible, practicable and moderate. In criticising the action of the Reform Party in regard to finance for farmers, he said that the Government passed four Acts of Parliament but gave no money. It was frequently alleged that the Labour Party was disloyal, continued the candidate. Thousands of members gave their lives in the Great War, while returned soldiers were numerous in the ranks of the Labour Party and held office. A charge of disloyalty was a charge against these men. Regarding Samoa the candidate defended the Labour Party’s attitude. His party stood for the right that no man should be condemned without a trial. He alleged that it was an advertising agency that put the Government in at the last election. A Voice: And they will go in again. The Candidate: Yes, probably they will. At the conclusion of the address a vote of thanks to the candidate was carried by ac/.imatlon.