AUCKLAND CITY EAST.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 282, 27 November 1919, Page 11

AUCKLAND CITY EAST.

(Published by Arrangement)

A FURTHER MESSAGE TO THE ELECTORS. At'a meeting of citizens of Eltham last Wednesday week, the Prime Minister, the "Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey, strenuously endorsed a statement made by mc in my ■previous message, viz.: That it is the duty of the electors of this country to select and elect the best men to represent them in Parliament. Other well known public men have repeatedly stated that the best brains of the business men of this Dominion are needed at this critical time to elucidate the complex and interesting problems that are now before us. The economical, industrial and educational interests of New Zealand will be in the melting pot unless experienced thoughtful and responsible men are returned to Parliament. Three candidates are soliciting your votes in this electorate. The present member, the Hon. Arthur Myers, Mr. Clutha Mackenzie, and Mr. Way. We all know Mr. Myers, we appreciated his efforts when he occupied the IMayoral chair of this city, and we know that municipal progress in Auckland dates from his Mayoralty. The mothers and children, as well as the workers of this city are grateful to him for giving us Myers : Park.

His nine years' service in Parliament* has proved him. to be a loyal and patriotic member of the British Empire, and he again comes before this electorate as a tried and trusted representative with a clean reputation for honest and convincing work.

As an independent elector, I do not always agree with Mr. Myers in his political views, but I am convinced he is the best man, the man of experience, and I shall therefore vote for him.

Mr. Mackenzie, another candidate i may be a young man of good character and promising ability, and when schooled by experience may in time prove to be ■ a useful citizen. At present, the ideals (which he presents to the electors are untried ideals, and no candidate for [••Parliament should at this moment seek election on such. They are no use to the community at the present time, i This is no time for experimental legislation. Withoilt business experience, without any experience of puWic life, j well really, if it -was not for the lament- ! able results of the war, we should consider his candidature a joke. i We must not let sentiment carry us j away from sober judgment, we -want a man of matured experience to represent this constituency, .-yid I would recom-' mend Mr. Mackenzie to wait for a few years. ' T h . c . otllc i r candidate, Mr. Way, who is soliciting votes, is the chosen representative of the N.Z. Labour Party. Unfortunately, tfae Labour Party Association is discredited amongst all right thinking people. No Labour candidate, if elected" •will be allowed freedom of thought and action, he must vote as he is told to vote. In this democratic country, it is nothing short of impertinence for any candidate to come before the electors hide bound by other peoples' thoughts outside the electorate he desires to represent. No Labour candidate will be allowed to vote in Parliament as his conscience dictates. He will have to submit to the directions of tho-*fe among3t i the party who shout the loudest, and the man on the box will probably be an I extremist. -These extreme men of the 60----called Labonr party are a positive danger to the community. They are men who have by their clap trap talk camouflaged the sane members of many, trades unions. Their policy is a cancerious policy, and as long as Labour inter-j ests are dominated by such a policy, they J ■will never make progress, and the whole, party will be discredited. j Voters of Auckland City East, pause : land think! At the forthcoming election I 1 see that the right, tried and trusty man 1 iof experience is returned as your repre-j [ sentative. CIVIC. I