JOTTINGS BY THE WAY

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 263, 3 November 1908, Page 5

JOTTINGS BY THE WAY

Mr Frank _awry's friends to-night entertain him at a complimentary social in the Harp of Erin Hall, in commemoration of his twenty-first political birthday.

This afternoon the Hon. Geo. Fowlds addressed a meeting of the lady electors of Grey Lynn in the Primitive Methodist Schoolroom, Eden Terrace.

A public meeting for women only will be held in St. George's Hall on Friday evening, when Mrs Emily Nicol will speak on the subject of Te Oranga Home and St. Helens Maternity Home.

"You dear women." was an expression used by Mr W. Richardson to the I several hundred ladies who constituted i part of his audience last night. The saying caused a laugh, whereupon the candidate added, "I see that tickles you men. Well, the reason is that you wa-ste your time smoking and drinking, and you do not know them as I do."

"I have oiften been a candidate," declared Mr W. Richardson at his meeting last night, amidst some laughter. "But that is not to -my discredit. The Government says there is a need for strong men. 1 claim to be a strong man. The man you can*t knock down, the man who comes up again smiling every time, must be -worth something."

The impression is very genera! in the King Country among those who ought to know that Mr Jennings' sfrat is in no danger, and that in all probability his majority will be a large one.—Taumammii correspondent.

"If this country was run upon proper lines, there would be no need for half the institutions we have. The Costley Home and Mt. Eden gaol would be converted into factories, and the hospital would be. four times too W. Richardson.

Despite the warmth of the struggle in his own electorate, the Minister for Education (the. Hon. Geo. Fowlds) is finding time to interest himself in outside matters. On Friday he will be present at ths official opening of the Main Trunk line at Makatote. while next week he will, in response to a requisition, visit the. Northern Wa-iroa. On Monday evening the Minister will be entertained at a social at Daxgavi—a and will afterwards '. deliver an address, and on Tuesday evening he speaks at Helensville.

"An absurd mania, got up by the Health Department." was Mr Richardson's opinion of the new dairying regulations, expressed at bis meeting last night. "They try to scare us about, the ge.nis in milk, but what system of inspection does the Government employ with regard to germs in beer? It is a. scandalous thing that the dairying industry should be harassed while tbe beer industry is left alone."

The niaubers of names on the Wellington electoral rolls are as follow' 3: Wellington North. 10,200; South, 9200: Central, 9305: East. 8640; Suburbs. 8640.

The numbers of names on the Dunedin electoral rolls arc as follows: Dunedin Central, SI 16; Dunedin West, 9736; Dunedin North, 8670; Dunedin South, 9023.

"I am not masking a factor of this Te Oranga Home business in this contest," remarked Mr O. Nicholson at the Riebniond Hail last evening, after having Tead a number of extracts from the report oi the Commissioner. "Then why are you talking so much about it?" was the prompt question from the rear of the room. "Because I want to let the people know the true facts of the case," was Mr Nicholson's reply.

"Imitation is the s_tcerest flattery." At the fiTst meet—ig of Mr A. E. Glover that gentleman "was presented with a handsome bouquet by 'two ladies. At Mr JO. Ink —Olson's vat seting last might-_t

Rio_mond Hall, towards the <*lose of theaddress a gentleman iwith a large walked from behind the stage to - the ' front of the hall, and as soon as the candidate sat down a young lady tripped rforward and handed him the floral tribute of appreciation. If this icind "of thing becomes epidemic, what a run there' will be on the flower gardens before all, the candidates have received their ,bouquets.

Before the conclusion of Mr W. Richardson's meeting last uight, a member of the audience walked on to the platform and proceeded, under the pretext of asking a question, to hold forth upon what he termed the lack of British fairplay and cruel larrikinis—i practised upon a candidate who had attempted to address a meeting that evening in another part of the city. He also deplored the action of the police, in failing to afford the maprotection. Mr Richardson said that if what he said was true, it was a disgrace, to the city of Auckland.

Mr E. G. B. Moss will give a special address to the ladies of the Parnell electorate in the Oddfellows' Hall, Parnell, on Wednesday at 3 pjn.

Speaking of the Education Amendment Act, the Minister for Education at his meeting in Mt. Roskill last night said that full power had been placed in the hands of the Boards of Education, so that they could transfer to vacant positions their oldest and most deserving teachers. Teachers could rely upon a perfectly sympathetic administration of the Act as long as he was Minister for Education. (Applause.)

"Are those little girls yours?" was the question put to a lay voter i.n Grey Lynn by a canvasser with an ingratiating smile. The voter admitted that they v.ere, and then was asked, "Would you like them to be. stripped naked, flogged, and then have their hair cut off?" The mother naturally replied that she would not. "Then," said tbe canvasser, "don't vote for Mr. Fowlds." The shot, however, failed, as the mother promptly replied, '"If it was to save them from ruin I would be quite willing for that remedy to be tried," and the canvasser promptly passed on lo the next house.

The election writs were received this morning by the Auckland registrars. Nominations of candidates will be received up till Monday next, at 5 p.m.

Auckland electoral registrars, with one exception, are. still busy iv making up the final batches of names for the electoral rolls. The number of applications in the Auckland Central seat since the publication of the supplementary roll totals 605. There are still a nuiaber of deletions to be made, however, and it is at present impossible, as in most of the other electorates, to say what the exact numbers are. On the Grey Lynn roll the number totals about 10.143, but there are fully 1300 to come off as the result of transfers, duplications, etc. The Eden roll stands at about 8753. but here also there are a number of names to be removed. The Auckland West roll totals 8773 names. ■-•

Mr Alfred Kidd is in receipt of a let ter from the City Council conveying a vote of thanks upon the success which attended his efforts in getting passed into law the two local bills promoted by the Council during the last session, viz.. the Symonds-street Cemetery Closing Bill and the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Bill. The Council, on behalf of the citizens, desired to express its warm thanks for Mr Kidd's valuable services in taking charge of both bills in Parliament.