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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9211, 23 April 1938, Page 3

"They have been burying me for the last two or three months, but this reception makes one feel a little bit alive," said the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) at the Town Hall, Wellington, when responding to the cheering that greeted his arrival to read the report of the Parliamentary Labour Party to the annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Party. "It was wonderfully tine to sec so many of the old faces and so many new ones fighting the battle of Labour. After ail, it is not a bed of roses, or anything like that." Mr. Savage said that the newspapers had not come to praise thorn—they had come to bury them. "That does not matter," he added. "We are going right on with the game."