“A DEFINITE POLICY”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 498, 30 October 1928, Page 6

“A DEFINITE POLICY”

WHY ELECTORS SHOULD VOTE LABOUR MR. ANDERTON’S ADDRESS “People will not be stampeded by the ‘Coates and Confidence’ cry as they were at last elec |m They know now what the Coates Government is worth, declared Air. J. A. Le, speaking at the meeting of Mr. W. T. Anderton. Lab* our candidate for Lden, at the Metn* odist Church, Dominion Road, la* l evening. Mr. C. W. Boswell presidedMr. J. A. Lee, who spoke for a halthour, criticised Sir Joseph Ward’s loaJ proposal. The United Party, he saidwero just Reformers under another name, and voted with Reform 0,1 every occasion. Air. Lee received a rousing n*ceP* tion and left the hall amid cheersMr. W. T. Anderton referred totn psychology of the Press which stampeded people into voting Coates. The promises of the Government, he said, had not bee kept, and yet the Prime Minister. wnf® speaking in Christchurch a ago, had pledged himself to a Ia “. policy and stated that he would no* be afraid to enforce the compuls? clause in the Land Settlement Ac* necessary. He had pledged himseu the same thing three years ago, DU he had done nothing. t 0 Concluding, he urged the elector* cast their votes for the Labour Pa*”! the only party which had a denn* constructive programme which be enforced as soon as they took P° session of the Treasury benches. A vote of thanks j.nd confidence the candidate was carried una mously.