REPLY TO AUCKLAND PROTEST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 230, 30 September 1941, Page 4

REPLY TO AUCKLAND PROTEST

WILL RECEIVE CONSIDERATION MR. I’RASER'S COMMENT ON THE MEETING. Wellington, Sept. 28. A reply to a communication he received following the Auckland public meeting ol' protest against the Social Security Amendment Bill was made by the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, on Saturday. He earlier replied to Mr. Will Appleton, who had written for the Wellington Citizens’ Protest Committee, advising that he w’ould endeavour to receive a deputation this week. Mr. Fraser's repl ylo Mr. J. A. C. Allum. Mayor of Auckland, was: "Please accept my thanks for your courtesy in forwarding me a copy of the resolution passed at the large meeting held in the Town Hall, Auck-. land, on Wednesday to attack the" Social Security Amendment Bill and the medical benefits for the mass of the people of the Dominion provided in it. I can assure you that the resentations contained in the resolution will receive full and careful consideration in spite of the fact that I cannot accept as accurate its descriptive terms and conclusions. Unfortunately. nothing published concerning the meeting, and certainly not the interesting list of speakers you furnished me with, appears to indicate that any supporters of the Government participated prominently in the proceedings, and that fact in itself would seem to indicate that a large section of the community whose opinions naturally weigh somew hat with the Government, was not represented. It is not proposed to utilise the National Broadcasting Service for public meetings, either in support of, or in oppo-tt on to the RiP."