HARGEST HITS BACK

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 31, 20 February 1937, Page 9

HARGEST HITS BACK

-Preet Association.J

"Confusing Pro mises With Actual Work"

(By Telerraph-

INVEBCABGILL, Last Night. In reply to Mr Semple 's further statement, Mr Hargest said to-night that he did not desire to coutiiiue newspaper discussions with Mr Semple, whose latest statement ranged ov6r the years since 1921. and on into the future, and who, in setting out his own achievements in Southland during the past 15 months confus^d promises With work actually done. Mr Hargest said he had sei out to refute the Minister 's two statements, firstly, that he had administered a sttub, and secondly, that he had negleeted his electorate during the Minister 'e visit. He believbd that he had shtisfied every uiibiased reader in respect Of both. All references to the Manakau by^electiou and the challenge to visit Mr Semple 's electorate were not worthy of notice. He- would probably call in on the Minister 's electorate but would certftihly not even mention Mr Semple 's itame. It was the poliey of the National Party to attaek policies not persons, The cllarge that while he was in Wellington he was attempiing to undermine the position of the preseni Government and bring about its defeat was ludicrous coming from one who for over 20 years had used evehy efilort to Siscfedit previops administrations, soid M r Hargest referring to the challenge ti ^ompare the record in Southland of tlu past Government in four years of offiee with that of the present Government 's 15 months of administrotion. Mr fiu-

i . gest aaJdf that, if one omittad promises of "comprehensive surveys," ohe coul^ ^oint to euch works as the LumsdenJosephille road, the KingstowQ-Queens-town road, 69 odd miles of the Eglinton road, and many scores of milee of drainage, eompared with the beginning t>f the Lorneville overbridge and, on the Minister 'b own showing, 350 feet of Homer tunnel.