MR SEDDON’S MANTLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19437, 24 October 1925, Page 6

MR SEDDON’S MANTLE

DISOWNED BY MR. HOLLAND. REPLY TO THE PRIME MINISTER. [Per Press Association.] NAPIER, Oct. 23. ■ Mr. H. E. Holland was accorded a good reception by a crowded audience here to-night. He made reference to a statement by Mr. Coates to the effect that the Labour land policy was drafted by men inexperienced in land questions and who did not understand the temper of the fhrming people. Ur. Holland said that in the annual conferences of tho Labour Party were some of the ablest farmers in the Dominion and a number of them wore standing as Labour candidates. These farmers hud a great deal to say in the construction of the land policy of Labour and understood farming as well as any member of tho Reform Party. Mr. Holland said Mr. Coates had allowed himself to bo led into repenting ono of tho silly distortions made by anti-Labour papers to tho effect th’it he (Mr. Holland) claimed that Mr. Seddon’s mantle had fallen on himself. No one should know better than Mr. Coates that ho had never said anything of the kind. What ho had Said was thnt the Labour Party of to <l:ty was historically, politically, and logically tho legitimate successor of Bai lance and Sodden. Mr. Holland’s address was cn the lines of those in other places. At the conclusion, a. motion of thanks and confidence was carried hn<l cheers wore given for Labour.