LABOUR PAPERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1938, Page 4

LABOUR PAPERS

MR SAVAGE TO ESTABLISH CHAIN STARTING ON MONDAY IF VICTORIOUS. COMPLAINT ABOUT REPORTING OF RECEPTIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH. October 14. An indication that if the Labour Government was returned at the election he would start on Monday to establish a Dominion-long chain of daily newspapers, was given by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, when he spoke to a crowd of about 3000 at Palmerston North today. He was given a rousing reception and was presented with a silver horseshoe, two miniature black cats for luck and a red-ribboned horseshoe. He had the utmost difficulty in moving through the crowd back to his car. “We are not going to have another election fought the same way as this," Mr Savage said in the course of his address, “and I am going to start in next Monday to establish a chain of daily newspapers. I am not going to wait until the eve of the election to get publicity, don’t make any mistake. We will make a Success of that and give the daily newspapers and vested interests something to think about.” Mr Savage complained about the publicity the Labour Party had received through the Press, and said that at Christchurch there was an attendance of 13,000 at his meeting which the newspapers reported as 8000. There had been great meetings at. Dunedin and Invercargill and at New Plymouth people stood in the rain, not to see him because of his good looks, but to shake hands with a Government representative who had done some good for New Zealand. He saw nowhere in —the Press an exaggerated account of his wonderful reception at Auckland, and never had he seen such an enthusiastic reception as that given to him at Hamilton.

“We will have newspapers to serve the country instead of vested interests,” he added.