MR. HARKER’S WAR RECORD

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 44, 15 November 1940, Page 9

MR. HARKER’S WAR RECORD

Reply To Challenge IMPLICATION CALLED CONTEMPTIBLE Dominion Si'BClal Service WAIPI.KUJtAI . November I I. Me-srs S. G. Holland. M.P.. ;»•><> J - W. Broadfool. Ml’.. look "9 cudgels on behalf of Mr. U. G. E. Harker, Na I ional candidate in Ibe " aipit'Va b\ election, tonight, and answered a ehiil leime issued by his opponent. Mr. Christie, to Mr. Harker to say when lie left New Zealand ami where ho tnvrd tlie enemy in the Great War. Speaking at Waipukurau. Mr. Holland said : "Here is a clear implication unworthy of any man who seeks to reenter public life. Mr. Harker went with the 33rd Reinforcements. He bad the option of leaving the army, but chose to undergo a serious eye operation to enable him to go overseas. He was retained in England for instructional purposes till the war ended. No man in i lie army is master ot his own destinies. The implication is mean, miserable, and contemptible in the extreme. There is no room in politics for that .sort of tiling.'"

In the Waipawa Municipal Theatre Mr. Broadfoot gave a similar outline of the National eamlidale's Great War service and added: 'The Labour camli date is apparently using personal attacks to cover his inability to defend the professed policy of the Labour Party as represented by I heir numerous broken promises. The innuendoes against Mr. Harker .'ire baseless anti beneath contempt. Mr. Harker was elected by the returned soldiers as their president for seven years. Surely I hat speaks volumes for the regard in which he is held by the returned soldiers in the district.”