THANKS TO THE SUN

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 76, 21 June 1927, Page 8

THANKS TO THE SUN

FAIR RUN FOR LABOUR REPORT AND CRITICISM TJNTIL THE SUN began to publish, the papers in Auckland had not given the Labour Party a fair report. THE SUN wai greatly needed. As far as the other papers were concerned, one was a Liberal-Conservative and the other was a ConservativeLiberal, and the Labour movement had nothing to expect from them. Mr. W. E. Parry. M.P. for Aucklml Central, in an address to his cm Btituents in St. Thomas's Hail, Ponsonby, last evening, thanked! THI SUN for the publicity it has given the Labour viewpoint. “We don’t mind being ciitkleei when the people are told what we say. but we were, until THE SUN started, criticised without having been reported. “Since then we have had » much better hearing. (Applause.) “X know THE SUN will criticise me. I know that the paper is in owe sition to the policy I stand for, but it has given us a fair run and we cat leave the rest to the community. “We are a responsible body its constituting His Majesty’s Oppositionresponsible enough to have our words weighed,” continued Mr. Parry. “Yet when the Labour Party was fighting the vagrancy clause of th* Police Offences Amendment Act in the House, the 35,000 to 40,000 Labor voters in the city had not been Bide familiar with what was being though the same papers had come on; with declarations as to the scandal* injustice of the vagrancy clause, when it had lately been shown that Conmissioner Mcllveney was at the ban of it” Dealing with the wretched bouaw conditions in Auckland, THE SON** come out and “called a pick a pica THE SUN was not in existence when the Dairy Produce Control Board constituted, said Mr Parry, but the position THE SUN has taken up been a very good one. (Applause)