"Most Disgraceful Thing I Have Ever Known!"
HASTINGS, Nov. 9. The introduction of what he regarded as a personaiity in the broadcast address by Mr W. S. Goosman, Nationai candidate for Paiko, was the subjeet of referenees by the Prime Minister (Mi Fraser) at Hasting toniglit. In his broadcast address on -Tuesday night, ■iaid Mr Fraser, Mr Goosman even vvreni so far as to descend to personaiities and he had even attacked the personai ippearanee of a Labour Party candi iale. "That wa? the most disgraeefui hing I have ever known in politics," •ie added. ' ' Af ter all Mr Goosman is lot an Adonis himself by any manner of means. He is not a Greek God, not a typieal specimen of wonderful beautj' iVlien , a man speaking over the air tbuses the privilege and speaks about mother man's personai appearance H is getting below ordinary politics. It is even getting down below the gutter." A voiee: Where he belongs. Mr Fraser addressed about 600 elec tors. He reviewed the 14 years of Lab our's administration, recalled the de pression, and compared conditions then with those today. He criticised the Nationai Party manifesto which, he said, was not in aeeord with the policy the members had advocated inside the ] House of Representatives.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 November 1949, Page 8
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