BY-ELECTION CAMPAIGN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 191, 10 December 1941, Page 5

BY-ELECTION CAMPAIGN

NATIONAL PARTY DECISION

MR SULIJLVAN TO CAMPAISGNI

ALONE

A sjhort time after the news of the attack by Japan on America was received on Monday morning a message was received by the Party organiser from Mr S. G. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, to the effect that all speakers other than the candidate Mr Sullivan, were repealled. The local organiser immediately had circulars printed and distributed advising the public of the decision and 1 the address to be delivered at King Street Hall that evening by Mr F. W. Doidige, M.P. for Tauranga was cancelled together with all other arrangements involving visiting speakers. The announcement made read as follows: — "Owing to the gravity of the war situation, consequent upon Japan's declaration of war upon Britain and America, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr S. G. Holland, has sent the Prime Minister a telegram, urging the immediate summoning of Parliament, and again emphasising the need for the formation of a National Government in order that the political and economic force of the Dominion may be consolidated in the face of common danger. "Mr Holland has also issued to the Press the announcement that he lias cancelled his own arrangements to take part in the Bay of. Plenty ixy-election, and further states that he has re-called the National Party Members of Parliament. Messrs Broadfoot, Goosman and Doidge, who were to have pa-rticipated in the campaign this week. "Mr Holland expresses the further hope that the campaign in the Bay of Plenty will now be confined to a contest between the two candidates. "In any case, this decision means that so far as the National Party is concerned, Mr Sullivan will be the only speaker in the field for the rest of the campaign, and that the meetings which were to have been addressed this week by Messrs Holland. Broadfoot, Goosman and Doidge, M.P.'s, are cancelled."