HON. G. FORBES

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1931, Page 6

HON. G. FORBES

WELL PLEASED WITH POSITION. CALL ON SUPPORTERS TO VOTE. (By Telegraph—Per Pres* Association) WELLINGTON, November 25. Hon. G. Forbes arrived from Hie South Island this morning, die said be had been extremely pleased with the evidence he had .seen on ail sides, of solid support for the Coalition Government. There was a widespread determination to stand by the Government. The rowdiness at public meetings caused by associates of the Labour Party, in attempts to prevent Coalition candidates speaking, was only tending to Strengthen 'the determination of many electors to rally round the Government on polling day. He regarded the outlook as very favourable for the return of the Government to office, but supporters of the Government should not take it for granted that victory was secure, and should roll up to polling booths on election day, because the Labour Party was out to get as big an aggregate vote as possible, so that they could claim in analysing the voting, that support foi the Labour Party had increased, and that the Government’s policy was unpopular. With that object in view, the Labour Party was putting up candidates where they had not the ghost of a show. He urged Coalition supporters to make the poll a. large one and expressed the hope that the Labour Party would not bo able to make such a claim, because of neglect of the people who did not think it necessary to vote.