INTERJECTORS QUIET

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 10

INTERJECTORS QUIET

REFORM PARTY DEFENDED MR. V. H. POTTER AT MT. EDEN Interjectors were quiet at Mr. V. H. Potter’s meeting in the Mount Eden Methodist Hall last evening. Mr. T. H. Mclndoe presided over a large audience, which gave the Reform candidate a sympathetic hearing and accorded him a vote of thanks and confidence. Mr. Potter dealt very fully with the past achievements of the Reform Party and stated that the Government, when returned to power, would continue to give the public sound and progressive legislation without descending to the spectacular. He spoke of the work which had been done in providing school dental clinics. Government afforestation and hydro-electric power. Labour, he ( said, was condemned by one of its members, Mr. J. A. Lee, who had said at Whangarei that the party had not changed its policy but only the phraseology of its party. Labour’s policy, he continued, could only lead to chaos; their State bank would destroy the credit of New Zealand and their proposal to establish a line of State ships would be crushed by the shipping combine. Mr. Potter also devoted some time to a criticism of the United Party. An amendment of thanks only, instead of the vote of thanks and confidence, was defeated by a large majority.