EDEN ELECTION.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 10 April 1926, Page 8

EDEN ELECTION.

MR. HOLLAND AT MT. ALBERT. By T»l®*raph—Tress Association. AUCKLAND, April 9. Mr 11. E. Holland, leader of the Labixur Party, spoke at Mount _Albert to-nig.ht in support of the candidature of Au- Mason at the Eden by-election. Mr (Holland made a general attack upon tile Government, and accused the Hon. J'l G. Coates of departing from his undertaking that there would be no dismissals from the railway workshop stalls under the reorganisation scheme ,He predicted that the Government would go in for wage reductions and i.itcreasss in taxation. The Labour Party, would oppose these to its utmost. They' knew they were coming, and those who had voted for the Government wcfculd get what they had. voted for. He. advised women not to vote for Miss Melville just because she was a woman. If she got into Parliament, and Mr Holland predicted she would not, the Reform Party would immediately open its* ranks to her. Sn© would sit on tho Reform bench, and vote against workers. He would nob be sue prised if tho Government brought in a Bill which would be a replica or the Commonwealth .Crimes Bill, which made it almost a crime to belong to a la A° n vote of thanks and 'confidence was carried.