THE FINAL SPEECHES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 635, 13 September 1933, Page 5

THE FINAL SPEECHES

A SPECTACULAR CAMPAIGN Christchurch, Tuesday. To-morrow is polling day at Lyttelton and to-night the candidates and their supporting speakers made their final appeal to the electorate after one of the most spectacular campaigns in the history of New Zealand politics. In the last few days there has been over 60 political meetings in the electorate. Three Ministers including the acting-Prime Minister and several members of Parliament have taken an active part in the campaign on behalf of the Coalition candidate, Mr. Freeman, while the Leader of the Labour Party and a strong body of Labour members have helped Mrs. McCombs. The Independent Labour candidate, Mr. Hills, has held fewer meetings and has been overloolced in the intensity of tho struggle. The acting-Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, addressed his last meeting at Lyttelton to-night. When he finished, he thanked the audience for the very good hearing it had given him. "I cannot understand it," he said. "I was told that I would never get out of here alive." To-night there was also another meeting at Lyttelton which was addressed by the Labour candidate and by Labour speakers. Mr. Coates has been given a very good hearing at all his meetings. The only occasion on which organised interruption came near to denying a hearing to the speaker was at one or two of Mr. Freeman's earlier meetings.