LABOUR PAPERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1938, Page 5

LABOUR PAPERS

MR SAVAGE’S PREDICTION "YOU CAN BANK ON THAT” (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “If would take a regiment of soldiers to get access to me today,” said the Prime Minister, Mr Savage 1 , over the telephone yesterday afternoon when he was asked for an interview. He spent a quiet day at home, resting after the stress of the campaign. “What is the first thing you are going to do?" he Was asked. “Well, that’s a bit sudden,” he replied. “One of the first things we will try to do, as I have said already, is to see that the next election campaign will not be fought under the same disadvantages, from our point of view, as this one. We have this satisfaction, that we have won all the way notwithstanding the attitude of our opponents, includings the newspapers. We don’t want any favours; all we want is fair treatment —and we haven’t had it. I know what is fair treatment as well as any newspaper editor. “We’ll have our own newspapers all right, you can bank on that. ■As far as other legislation •is concerned, it’s really too early to talk today. Our proposals have been placed in front of the public, and we’ll simply take them in order of importance and do the job.”