CAMBRIDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 13

CAMBRIDGE.

CANDIDATES BUSY.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

CAMBRIDGE, this day.

Interest in the coming general elections is quickening in this district, as all candidates are campaigning vigorously. The outskirts of Cambridge are included in the Waikato, Raglan and Rotorua electorates, and consequently the town is receiving a very full share of political meetings.

The United Party's candidate, Mr. Fred Lye, who represented the district from 1922 to 1925, is at present visiting the outskirts of the electorate at the Morrinsville end. He has been well received, and at all his meetings he has been accorded votes of thanks and confidence.

The Reform candidate, Mr. D. Stewart Reid, addressed meetings at Te Miro on Wednesday evening, and again at Hautapu last night, when there was an attendance of thirty electors. At Te Miro he was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence after an amendment of no-confiflence had lapsed.

Good meetings are reported from Karapiro and Tamahere this week, where the electors were addressed by the Country Party candidate, Jlr. P. Keegan. In each case the candidate was accorded votes of thanks and confidence.

Mr. W. Lee Martin, M.P., and Labour candidate for Raglan, has been visiting the new portion of his electorate, near Cambridge. He had a lively meeting at Roto-o-rangi, and questions at a the close of his address were numerous. The candidate twitted the Government with not having carried out its promises made in 1925. Mr. Coates had been acclaimed as the- saviour of the railways, and yet "in a state of funk and panic" he had allowed an outsider to dictate his own terms and impose conditions that were unprecedented •in the appointment of a Civil servant. The superannuation provisions in Mr. Sterlings appointment would, involve the taxpayers of the country in a liability of probably over £50,000. Mr.' Martin was accorded a vote of'thanka andconfideaca.