LYTTELTON SEAT

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1933, Page 5

LYTTELTON SEAT

POLLING TO-DAY / FINAL CAMPAIGN ADDRESSES. (Per Press Assotiatioiy— Copyright ) CHRISTCHURCH, September 12. Polling in the -Lyttelton by-election will taKe place toriiiorrow. Thp candidates and supporting speakers made their final appeals to the electors tonight, after one of the. most spectacular, campaigns ip’ the history of New, Zealand politics: Mr- Coates addressed his last meeting in the campaign at Lyttelton tonight. When he had finished ,he thanked the audience for their giving him an extraordinary good hearing, “I> can’t understand it,” he said. “I was told that 1 1 would never, get out of, here alive!”

Mr - Coates lias; had very good hearings at all his meetings. At some there have been some interjections, but most of this noise, has. come from a few people. The only meetings at which organised interruption went near to denying; a hearing to- a, speaker were some earlier , mduiings of Mr Freeman. . ..." - ' l . '

There.was also another meeting-held' in Lyttelton to-night. It was' addressed by the Labour, :;candidate, Mrs McCombs, and by Labour members. In the last'two days, there have been sixty-one political meetings, in the electorate. :- y ; ;* X-" •

Three Cabinet Ministers, including the a'cting-Prime Minister and also several members :of. Parliament, have taken- an active part'in the campaign on behalf‘of; the Coalitipn candidate. Air Freeman. The Leader v of. the Labour party, and a strong body of Labour members, have 'helped Airs McCombs. the Independent Labour candidate, Air’ Hills, lias held fewer- meetings, and he has been, oyerlaokhd in the intensity of the 'struggle of \recent days.‘- -•. • ' X ,=-