ELECTION CAMPAIGN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1938, Page 10

ELECTION CAMPAIGN

MR ARMSTRONG CRITICISES NATIONAL PARTY MEETING AT CHRISTCHURCH (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 21. Approximately 900 electors of Christchurch East assured the Minister for Labour, the Hon H. T. Armstrong, of success at the coming general election, after he had addressed them for two hours last night. Prolonged applause greeted the Minister at the conclusion of his address, and his request that he should be permitted to conduct a short campaign in his own electorate and then depart on a tour of the North Island, to “help to win some more seats," was readily complied with. “New Zealand had at last been made acquainted with the long-awaited policy of the National Party,” said Hr Armstrong, “it looked impressive at first sight, but on examination proved to be merely a mass of words taken from the legislation that the Labour Government had already placed on the Statute Book. “Three years ago we faced you with a policy of twelve points,” continued the minister, “every one of those points has been written into the law of New Zealand. The last of them was the Socoal Security Act (applause). The National Party says it will not put this into operation. It is certainly right for once” (laughter).