LABOUR LEADER’S TOUR

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 505, 7 November 1928, Page 10

LABOUR LEADER’S TOUR

PETONE AND LOWER HUTT Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. Mr. 11. E. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, spoke last night at Petone and at Lower Hutt. At Petone he was accorded a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence by a crowded audience. At Lower Hutt a vote of thanks only was recorded. No questions were invited at either meeting, and the motion of confidence at Lower Hutt lapsed for want of a seconder, although three cheers were given for Mr. Holland. Any vote for the United Party, Mr. Holland said, would be a vote to keep Reform in office. The United Party stood to hold Mr. Coates in office. The programme of the Labour Party represented the view not only of the in* dustrial organisations, but the view of the democratically-minded farmers. Labour was the only possible alternative to the present reactionary and conservative Government. The only party seriously fighting the Reform Party was the Labour Party. A later message says that owing to some confusion at Mr. Holland’s meeting at Hutt, it was supposed that a vote of thanks only was passed. The chairman of the meeting, however, states that a vote of thanks and confidence was really passed without dissent.