NATIONAL PARTY

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 413, 21 April 1937, Page 5

NATIONAL PARTY

EXTENSIVE PROGRAMME. Leader and Members To Tour Electorates. An extensive programme of political activity it/ to be carried out this month and next by the Leader lof 'ho ! Opposition, Hon. Adam Hamilton, and | several Parliamentary members of I he National Party. Various elector- ’ ates in fto.h islands will be visited and addresses delivered oh the nutnrous problems in politics and the trend of the Labour 1 Government’s policy. Mr Hamilton left Wellington last' evening for South Canterbury, where he will be engaged for two or three days before going on to Invercargill for Anzac Day. He will deliver a political address in Invercargill on May 4. With Mr S. G. Holland, M.P. (Christchurch NoYth) the Leader of the Opposition, will visit Dunedin and adjacent districts on May 5 and 6, both addressing numerous political meetings. After the Dunedin tour Mr Holland will visit Wellington and on May 11 address, members of the I Manufacturers’ Association. The fol- | lowing morning he will fly back to Christchurch for Coronation Day. I Thereafter he 'Will visit Auckland. I Mr V,’. A. Bodkin, M.P. (Central ’ Otago,) is on a political tour of thu I Hawke’s Bay electorates. He will I speak at Waipukunau 10-nlght and also in turn Rt Woodville, Pahlaitun, ; Pongoroa. Eketahuna and Feather- | sion. On his return to Wellington ihe will deliver an address at the I neadquar.Pis of the National Party on | Monday. Next w «ek he will leave : Wellington for an extensive tour of i he Nonh Island; ■ A mee ing of the Dominion C>unc’i i jf the National Party will be held in Welling on on May 19 !t will he i>tI tended by Mr Hamilton. Two days later the leader will leavo Wellington i for Mo'uoka, Takaka, Blenbci.n, Havelock, Richmond and Nelson. | Mr H. G. Dickie, M.P. (Pa’tea), | tias compi ted b. comprehensive poliItical tour of Hav’ke’g Ray and the I Bay of Plenty electorates. I An enthusiastic audience listened o an address by Mr W. A. Bodkin, M.P. for Central Otago, at the Masonic Hall, Waipukurnu, last evening. Mr I 1. W. N. Mackie, the Mayor, presided and Mr Bodkin’s address was in* I terrupted by frequent bursts of ap-