TWO VIEWPOINTS

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1935, Page 5

TWO VIEWPOINTS

GOVERNMENT AND DEMOCRAT. AUCKLAND CANDIDATES SPEAK. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Mr. W. P. Endean, National Government candidate for Parnell, opened his campaign at Remuera to-night. Some heckling came from a minority but a vote of confidence was carried. He defended the policy of the Government and particularly the high exchange rate, which he said was not a breach of the Ottawa agreement. He said it had actually been laid down at Ottawa that countries there concerned were at liberty to manipulate the exchange. Mr. Endean concluded his address with the statement that Messrs. Forbes and Coates would be remembered as the men who were good and faithful servants of their country when history came to be written. The official Democrat candidate for the Waitemata seat, Mr Alan Donald, opened his campaign to-night. A vote of confidence in the candidate was carried by over 200 electors present. Mr. Donald said the Government’s policy was unsotmd and would retard recovery if continued. The Labour Party’s programme was not practical and the Democrats’ proposals offered the only solution of the problem of national rehabilitation. Mr. Donald criticised the effect of the Government’s legislation and the reliance placed on university professors. He also criticised the Government’s action in refusing to broadcast speeches without reference to Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, Leader of the Democrat Party. In conclusion he declared the Nationalists’ use of Mr. Stanley Baldwin’s portrait in advertisements was an act of impertinence.