BTITISH PREMIER

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1931, Page 5

BTITISH PREMIER

VISITS CONSTITUENCY. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, October 3. The Prime Minister, Air Ramsay MacDonald, who is visiting Sealiam, will examine the position there before deciding to contest the Seaham seat again. Though Mr MacDonald subsequently testified his pleasure at -his reception in Seaham, Mr W. G-. Coxcn, the local Labour Party Secretary, who had received a reminder from headquarters that nobody expelled from the party would be nominatable for an election, announced after a meeting of the party that the Seaham (Labour Party adhered to its decision to secure another representation. Mr MacDonald, on his arrival, wore a red carnation in his button hole. He smilingly stepped out of his motorcar to face an assemblage of one hundred delegates, over whom theie piesided Mr” Thomas Nelson, a working miner.

Police reinforcements whose presence was due to rumours of a Communists’ demonstration, which did not materialise, placed a cordon round too car. Three thousand people were outside the hall, and they applauded and hooted. Mr MacDonald raising his hat in response and bringing forth shouts of “Good old Mac!” The murmers lapsed into silence as the Prime Minister shook hands with Mr Nelson, the President, and nodded to Mr Coxon. the secretary of the Seaham Labour Party. He mounted the platform pale, hut determined, to expound the causes of the crisis. He concluded by saying: “T have been a life-long Socialist. T shall alwys remain one. The national emergency oompelled me to take the slims I did. The classes I represent would have been the first to suffer if the crisis had not been met.” j The walls of the hall still bore the 1 1929 election placards: “Vote for Mac- | Donald 1”