CAMPAIGN NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22515, 24 September 1938, Page 18

CAMPAIGN NOTES

Pride in His Team “I am proud of my team, and I sure they will constitute more than half of the members of then< rW liament.” said the Leader of tto Na tional Party (the ton) last night. 1 The National_Party will not let the people down. We are determined to deliver the goods, and nothing will stand in our way. Concentration on Egmont d£" n oT”‘ts‘ S ftrength on the Egmont eiectorate m an effort to unseat Mr C. A. WUKmson, the sitting Independent candidate. Tim has aroused keen interest in the con test Already .three Ministers of the Crown and four members have spoken on benalf of the Labour candidate Mr T. E. Trask The Mm ister for Labour, the Hon. H. T. Arm strong will speak in the electorate today, and the Minister for Lands the Hon. F. Langstone. and the for Agriculture, the Hon. W. Eee Mar tin, will speak later in the month. Charge Against Leader Inat the Leader of the National Party the Hon. Adam Hamilton, had misrepresented the situation over Labour Party funds was alleged by Mr T. H. McCombs, Labour candidate for Lyttelton, at Lyttelton last e ing Mr McCombs said that when speaking to businessmen at Christchurch yesterday he had said that the T abnur Party would have i rom £200,000 to £400,000 available from trade’ union funds. , „ -- “That is misrepresentation, Mr McCombs said. “Mr Hamilton assumes that every Id of trade union fees goes into the Labour funds. He knows that is not so. He knows, too that all the trade unions are not affiliated ./ixn Lib’our —there are many of them unaffiliafed. The affiliation fee is Is per year per member. It would have to be £1 to bring the funds up to Mr Hamilton’s figure.”

Loan for Furniture Reference by the Hon. Adam Hamilton to the National Party’s proposal to advance loans of £IOO for furniture, the loan to be wiped off when the third child is bom, provoked an outburst of uproarious laughter from one section of the audience in the St. James’ Theatre last night. “Our Labour friends seem to get some enjoyment from this proposal,” said the National Party leader, whose explanatory remarks could not be heard above the continued laughter. “It will be our policy to push forward an own your home’ movement,” he added. £30,000 On Overdraft In support of his contention that the banking system was just a matter of book-keeping, Mr W. B. Bray, Independent candidats for Lyttelton, saici last evening that, when the Hon. D. G. Sullivan was Mayor of Christchurch, a drive was made to collect money for the poor. Mr Bray suggested to the accountant of one of the leading banks that a sum of £30,000 should be made available on overdraft for this purpose. Asked what security would be given, Mr Bray said that the better living conditions of the Christchurch people would, be the bank’s He had offered to show how the bank’s balance-sheet could be arranged to meet this situation, but his offer had been met with “hedging” by the official concerned. Underhand Propaganda “1 want to join the Prime Minister in deploring any underhand propa-ganda,-whispering, and chain letters, said the Hon. A. Hamilton (Leader of the National Party), in his public address last night. “I entirely disapprove of these things, and urge supporters of the National Party, to Keep their fighting clean, and to have nothing to do with them. The National Party dissociates itself from responsibility for anything of this kind, Massey Government and. S<wtelSß» The extent to which previous Governments had committed themselves to socialistic measures was discussed by Mr W. B. Bray in the Sumner Town Hall last evening. He said that the seeds of Socialism were sown by the Massey Government in passing the Meat Export Control Act, yet a hue and cry was raised by the present Opposition over the losses on buttei*. This was a good election "Stunt,” but did not get anywhere. Keeping Up Production That his job was to keep production up was stated by the Prime Minister in his address on Thursday night Commenting on this remark last night, the Hon. A. Hamilton said, “It would be interesting if the Prime Minister had given us the butter, wheat and cheese figures for the last two years and show how ridiculous his statement is.” Promises The Prime Minister was quoted by the Leader of the Natipnal Party last night as having said in his broadcast address from Wellington: “You can depend on me to carry out the pledges I am making to you on behalf of Labour. I don’t promise lightly. I know the value of words.” Mr Savage’s reference to promises reminded him, said Mr Hamilton, of certain promises made three years ago on the sales tax, exchange, taxation, and tha cost of Government.

FILM NOT SHOWN USE ILLEGAL IN PARTY CAMPAIGN (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) NEW PLYMOUTH, September 22.' More than 1000 people in New Plymouth last night heard the fifty-ninth address given by the Minister for Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) in four months. The Minister was given a very good reception, and a vote of thanks and confidence was carried. Mr Semple did not show his films of the activities of the Public Works Department. Mr F. L. Frost, New Plymouth candidate for the party, explained that as the writs for the election had been issued, Mr Semple could not use Government property for the purpose of a party campaign. The Labour Party, continued Mr Frost, had had a duplicate made of the film and it would be shown shortly. Mr Semple said he had had legal advice that he could show the film, as it was of an educational nature, but he did not want to take a mean advantage and use an entertainment to get people to come to his meetings.