LABOUR CANDIDATE
LYTTELTON SEAT
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Enthusiasm which expressed itself in friendly interjections and cheers at the close marked the opening of Mrs. E. R. McCombs's campaign in the Lyttelton by-election tonight. Mrs. McCombs, who is tho official Labour candidate, addressed a crowded gathering in the Oddfellows' Hall, Lyttelton. Not content with what was described as a .stimulating address, the crowd called for speeches from the Labour Parliamentarians present, Mr. F. Langstone, organiser of the campaign, Mr. E. J. Howard, and Mr. H. T. Armstrong. Mrs. McCombs referred to the worldwide advance of women to positions of responsibility in the government of countries, and claimed that the introduction of proportional representation was an electoral reform necessary to give women direct representation in Parliament. She urged a general referendum law giving ten per cent, of the people the right to demand a plebiscite vote on any proposed legislation and the right to initiate legislation. The unemployed, who, with the addition of women and boys out of work, probably numbered double the official figures, received plenty of kindness, but they wanted real work to vary tho monotony. What was wanted was a new outlook such as that which in Mr. Seddon's1 and Mr. Ballance's time brought New Zealand out of a similar depression. The Labour Party's policy, she claimed, was the most constructive plan for bringing tho country back to prosperity. The Government already had a large majority in the House, and a vote for it in the present election was an endorsement of all its actions over the past two years. Mrs. McCombs said that if elected she would vote for tho restoration of educational facilities, and she spoke at length of the harm done, especially to sons and daughters of working men, by the reduction of expenditure on education. She was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1933, Page 14
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318LABOUR CANDIDATE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1933, Page 14
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