POLITICAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 57, 15 July 1938, Page 4

POLITICAL

BAY OF PLENTY "tSEAT LABOUR PARTY CAMPAIGN ORGANISATION CHANGE'S The recent meeting of the Bay of Plenty Labour ’ Representation Ccmmittee, held in Tc Karaka, was marked by an ilnportant change in the organising for this y year’s election campaign, involving a change in the honorary secretaryship of the campaign committee^ Because of tjie many advantages which it was fijtt,is would be. secured by having the head office of the electorate committee in the same town as the registrar of" electors’ office, it was decided unanimously M*r TNG. Johnson, J.P., Opotiki, to accept the position of lion, secretary and treasurer, as from July 4. This offer was accepted by Mr Johnson, and he will be in . charge of the campaign from the Opotiki office. (Arrangements also have been made for Mr Johnson to. • have fulltime assistance in the work in the next few months. The vice-presidency of the Bay of Plenty campaign committee, vacated by Mr Johnson, has been filled by the appointment of Mr C. H. Christensen, well-known in business in Wliakatane.

Mr G. A. Moore, the former secretary to the committee, will continue to render service to the Labour Party in other spheres, and at the Labour 'Representation Committee meeting, at which the change was made, he was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for his past services. Mr Moore made n brief reply, and thanked all those who had given co-operation during the 1935 campaign and since. It is believed that the preparation for the forthcoming elections will prove the party’s best organised effort. CHARGES DENIED BY BAY NATIONAL PARTY OFFICIALS Speaking on the Address in Reply debate in the House of Representatives last week, Mr F. W. Sehramrn (Labour, Auckland East), referred to to the propaganda; carried out from door to door by women, who carried out a ‘ '"whispering” campaign against the Government. For instance, he said, they told occupants, yvho kept boarders not to vote- for the Labour

Government, as there would be one central boarding, lio.use. Mr Schramm further -stated that there persjajnil campaign a- ' gairisf&Mr Savage In the Bay of Plen;ty An- which it was alleged -that MiSavage was a Czechoslovakian, whose real name was “Michael Josephus Savigivicli.” . Mir S. G. Smith- (Nat., New Plymouth) said the National Party knew nothing about the campaign which Mr Schramm alleged was being carried. on against the Prime Minister. In a statement to the “Opotiki News” officials of the National Party in the Ba.y of Plenty electorate, say that there is no foundation whatever for the allegations as to the Prime Minister- being referred to as an unnaturalised alien ; also that there are no paid women organisers. The of-

ficials state that the remarks made »Jby Messrs Schramm and Coleman M. P. ’s. are utterly- untrue.