PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 265, 7 November 1919, Page 8

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.

THE AUCKLAND WEST SEAT. The political campaign of Mr. Horatio Nelson Bagnall, a candidate for the Auckland West seat, will be opened in Jervois Hall nt 8 on Monday evening. This will dispel the belief held by some tlint Mr. BnjjnaH was retiring from tho fOlltl •. . j . BPBN. A meeting of the supporters uf Mr. C. .). Parr was held last, night in-the old Board Room at Avondale Mr. Parr was in attendance. .Mr. F. Hampshire was put in charge of the district, and a committee was formed with Mr. Yallum-e as chairman. MANUKAU ELECTORATE. Mr. Ralph Taylor, Independent candidate, addressed the electors at the Otahuhu Public ITall last evening. There was a very attendance. The Mayor j (Mr. A. McDonald) presided* The caiidijdate dealt with a number of questions of I political interest, and at the conclusion jof his address was accorded a hearty vote lof thanks. TAUEANGA. TE AROHA, thie day. Mr. B. G. Robbins, Independent Liberal candidate for Tauranga, addrewed a largely-attended meeting in He Theatre i Royal last evening. The Mayor, Mr. il. Jackson, presided. The address was attentively listened to, and a vote of thanks was carried unanimously on the motion of Messrs. R. Coulter and U WagstafT. TAUMARUNUI. fßy Telegraph.—Press Association.) TAUMARUNIH, Thursday. Mr. F. W. Shortland addressed the electors here last night as a Moderate Labour candidate. There was a small attendance. A vote of thanks was passed. HAWKE'S BAY.

I HASTINGS, Thursday. I Mr. Gilbert McKay, Opposition candio ! date for Hawke's Buy, addressed n large J j meeting at Hastings last night. d NAPIER, tohie day. •; Mr. 1". C. Evans (selected Labour d ■ candidate for the Xapier eeat) opened it..-his campaign in the Municipal Theatre •r before a crowded audience. He received ,o a quiet and attentive hearing and was a accorded a vote of thanks and conft- [; dence. He signed the pledge of the n Kact Coast Development League to push ■s on the railway and the Waiknremoana y scheme. , it a CHRISTCIIURCII EAST. d i- CTIRISTCirURCH. Thursday. .s The Labour candidate for Christchurch t, Kiist, Mr. Herman Hunter, opened his i- campaign last night. He said there was 0 nothing like Bolshevism in the Labour party's platform. Mr. Hunter receive* , , a vote of thanks and confidence. j TEMUKA. '■ TIMARU, Thursday. ' 1 Mr. C. J. Talbot, M.P., Opposition i candidate, opened his campaign last , night at Temuka. Speaking of nationI nlisation, he said the coal and shipping ) industries might be nationalised. Em- , plovers and employees should he brought - together to secure co-operation. NELSON. * NELSON, Thursday. Mr. J. G. Price, the official Labour ■ candidate for the Nelson seat, opened his ; campaign last night before a large atirii- , ■ encc. He outlined the policy of the , I Labour party, and was accorded a i unanimous vote of confidence. WELLINGTON SOUTH. WELL-TOTTOX, this day. Colonel Mitchell, Independent candij d.ite for Wellington South, addressed a large meeting of electors at Xewtowil last night. He expressed sorrow that soldiers had come back to find a different I spirit prevailing in the country from j that which prevailed on the battlefield— I a spirit of brotherhood and comradeship. j The spirit here was one of selfishness, I Jand speculation and profiteering. He I was just as much against the land i speculator and the profiteer as against •the extreme element who opposed soldiers in the war. It was not his intention to pledge himself to anyone except the people. If the cost of living problem was not faced there be a ' calamity. The education system should , 'be kept free, eecular, and compulsory, : and should be put on a higher and bettor status. I OHRT3TCHUECH SOUTH. CHRISTCHUROH, Thursday. j 'Mr. E. J. Howard, Labour candidate J for Chriafccliurch South,, opened 'hi* campaign to-night at the King's Theatre, which was crowded. The iHon. J. T. ; Paul was chairman. Mr. Howard said I for many years Labour had thrown in its , lot with the .Liberals in the belief that they would by so doing get a square j deal, but it had not received that square . deal, and Labour had come as a party of its own. The Labour part.* t challenged the Liberal party as much J las it did the Reform party, and said ! ■ they should be in the one party, because i ! ithere was ,no ifundamentail difference ' ■ between them. Lalbour wanted to get ■ into power because it liad a constructive platform. A vote of thanks and con'fi- t. j dence was carried. £ I SPEECHES AT WANGANUT. \ j WANGANUI, this day. a Brigadier-General Meldrum, Literal d candidate for Rangitikei, spoke at Wan ganui East last night. f "Mr. 'Lewie Mcllvride (official Labour !: candidate for Wanganui) spoke at tin; j| Opera House. Each had a good meeting.lf Mr. W. J. Luke opened his Wanganui campaign last week. H e announced himself a supporter of "sane Labour," and said that in a test vote between Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward he would * . support Mr. Massey every time. I a