PARNELL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 257, 30 October 1925, Page 8

PARNELL.

MR. WAY AT PARNELL LIBRARY. HOUSING AND HEALTH. Mr. U. Y. Way. Labour candidate fur Parriell, was greeted by an overflowing audience at Tarneß Library list night, with Mr. L. W. Gardner in the chair. .Vlr. Way again urged any s.:pporle.-s of his present to give Mr. Dick-ou ; > fail , hearing. He regretted that his opponent hud got oif the rails the pre\ io-is I'-tcniiiif. ami started with the muck-rake v>ll nil incident of ID years ulick. Kveii Mr. D:«.-k-oifs own Cabinet Ministers i\iiiiM mil thank him fur siuii a had hre:iU. i)iil Mr. Way asked those preM'lil to in , glided by re:i.-on, and judge the Ur-iH's < v their merits, lie had avoided i'.ll personalities, and stuck to [K-iiiies. aiiil was pleased that tin- li»!u in i'ameil had s..> far been .one of the in New Zealand. .Mr. Way developed his views on housing and health, which ho had dealt with at tiie earlier meeting ill the campaign. "Socialisation" was not a bogy to be scared of; the Railway Department, with its socialised service of timber mills, factories at Fraukton Junction, and socialised housebuilders, was erecting houses in model surroundings for railway workers all over the North Island, and the men in the Slate railway service cJUhI rent these good homes by paying one day's wages for one week's rent. It' Mr. Coatcs. as Minister, could do this for his railway workers without loss, he could do it for every worker in New Zealand, but the neglect of the Heforni llinpinmrat to tackle the housing problem was a menace to tin , health of every community, and was condemned by every thinking citizen regardless of jiartv. Kpide'.nics of the p:;st hail proved how slum* and liovi'ls in the congested areas had bred lilth-nurlui'e.l fevers and plague-, which could nut be conlmed to the shacks and slums, but spread ruthlessly and relentlessly Ito Use mansionof l.cinucia and the homes of One l'ree Hill. The health of the people. ckvlarel Mr. Way. was determined by the environment of their homes. A sick man was a dead loss to the community, and even on sordid commercial grounds it paid the State to get him well as soon as possibic A sick mother in the home was often a tragedy, and the health of the home cuiild not be calculated in ti nns of pounds, shillings and ] dice, and there should \>v the tallest provision freely provided for medical assistance in maintaining the health of every man, woman and chill at the highest possible state of etiiciency. Insurance against sickness and accident could be provided by tin , iStatc making the insurance service a monopoly. 'I he thirty odd companies competing for this business in Xew Zealand now meant waste and loss of premiums in overhead charges.

■■The light on the 4th." declared the candidate, '"was between the few big llH'ii \\ ho controlled big business in the iJoiniiiio.i. and the masses of the people whose only hope of betterment in the fmilli , rested with the party of the people."

Aflrr answering numerous questions a vote ot thank* ;mrl confidence in Air H ii y «as declared carried amidst eiithw jias-ni. without dissent. AUCKLAND CENTRAL

MR. PARRY ON HOUSIXG

Mr. YV. K. Parry addressed a large meeting ai Victoria House. Nelson S'.reet, last night and received a splendid hearing. A unanimous vote of thanks and confidence was carried, with three cheer.-.

Mr. Tarry dealt extensively with the housing question, and said that there were 30.000 houses short in New Zealand. If the brick, cement and timber combines would not sitpply material at a rciisonanle price, then the - y tate should establish its own mills. Notwithstanding the conditions of housing the Minister of Labour had stated that, if returned, lip would remove the Rent Restrictions Act from the Statute Book, the only protection that (he neonle bad against the exactions of high rents. Mr. Parry also dpalt with the abolition of the Upper House, and said that a- a sample of the work done by this Chamber, they sat five hours and 43 minutes for one month's work. Yet the Chamber devoted a good deal of its rime to the denunciation of the workers for tioins: slow. (Applause.) The cai"l : date concluded with an appeal to all those who stood for progress as affainst Toryism, to vote solidly for the only party that stood to ease the burdens of humanity.