POLITICAL COUSINS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 22

POLITICAL COUSINS

RELATIONSHIP OF PARTIES WWPFED AND REFORM ( From Our Own Correspondent) ROTORUA, To day. Out of the maze of political names applied to the United Party comes the original note of Mr. A. G. Christopher, Labour man in Rotorua. “The United and Reform Parties are political cousins,** he says. Mr. Christopher addressed a large meeting at Te Whetu on Sunday morning, and at the conclusion of his address received a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence in trtie Labour Party. Later he addressed two meetings at Darby’s Hall. Arapuni, one in the afternoon and another in the evening, and on both occasions the hall was well filled. Mr. J. Williams, organiser for the New Zealand Workers’ Union, presided at both meetings. At the conclusion of his addresses the candidate received unanimous votes of thanks for his addresses, and confidence in the Labour Party. The candidate in his addresses stressed the fact that the workers could carry any election if they stood solidly together, and warned them that the United Party was merely a political cousin of the Reform Party, and the only hope the workers had of improving their condition was to vote Labour.

The candidate also explained the main points of the Labour platform. These meetings were the largest and most enthusiastic so far held in these portions of the electorate.