"GENERAL ELECTION WILL BE HELD"

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 14, 8 September 1931, Page 3

"GENERAL ELECTION WILL BE HELD"

("Post" Special Commissioner.) *

LABOUR DETERMINED MR. HGLLAND'S FIGHTING SPEECH AT TRADES HALL FIGHT IN, TWO MONTHS

WELLINGTON,- Tuesday. In the course of an address at the Trades Hall last' evening, Mr H. E. Holland, Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, said the Dominion was on the verge of ' the greatest political fight in its history, and that the fight would come in two months' time. An attempt was being made to postpone the elections, but the Labour Party was determined that Ihe elections should be held. Their deshge was to fight those who had dragged Labour down to its present intolerable position. . Mr Holland said that" Labour was fighting all parties who represented the capitalists. In the coming elections plenty of money would be available to finance the fight against the Labour movement. The Labour Party could meet and beat those tactics. He urged members of the Labour Pqrty to go f orward and win the greatest Labour victory that had ever been won in New Zealand. Mr Holland's declaration was ref erred to the leaders of the other two parties to-day. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, said a return to prosperity would b'e delayed if it became necessary to hold a general election shortly. Mr Forbes said he was unable to predict what would happen,- but ho considered it would help the country out of its difficulties if the election wepe postponed. The Leader of the Opposition, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, said he could add nothing to what he had already stated. "We will take our hurdles as we come to them," he remarked.