ELECTION JOTTINGS.

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

ELECTION JOTTINGS.

QUIPS FROM THE PLATFORM.

CANDIDATE «ALTJE».

OFFERED A JOB. "You have a good job," an interjector told Mr. V. H. Potter, wheal he was endeavouring to justify the appointment of Mr. Sterling, as manager' of railways. This prompted a retort from the candidate that he was willing .to find his interjector a job on a farm in thoManawatu if he would take it. "What about your £8 a week," side-tracked the man to whom the offer was made. "1 am satisfied," replied Mr. Potter, "and I will keep my job." | SUPREME MOMENTS. Mr. J. W. Yarnall, the Labour candidate for Parnell, worked himself into a great state of enthusiasm at hi* meeting in St. Mark's Hall. He talked of supreme moments. "There have been three supreme moments in my life," he said. "The first was when I became a Civil servant; the second was when I was ordained as .a parson; and the third was when I was admitted as a lawyer. The fourth," Mr. Yarnall said, "will be when I am returned as the Labour member for PSunelL" (Sceptical grunts from the rear.) SQUEEZING A BRICK. Salient features of Mr. V. H. Potter's meeting at Dominion Road were the continual commotion and the repartee of the candidate, who scored repeatedly off the running fire of interjections by the large element of Labour supporters. "Good old Harry!" I*l— a chorus from some "front benchers" when the speaker made reference to the leader of the Opposition. "Half a, minute, a minute," pleaded Mr. Potter of - the most persistent interjector. "You ate not talking in your sleep are you?? Then later, he observed, "If Mr. Holland came on to this platform and offered you a brick for a lemon drink, of you would squeeze it." (Laughter applause greeted the sally, which was typical of the many humorous interludes during the pantomime meeting. NEW LYNN TAKES SECOND PLACE. "We expected that when the eastern railway outlet was completed the straightening of the line through Mornings ide would be put in hand, «*■» within five years from now trains would be running over the direct line to New Lynn," said Mr. H. G. R. Maaon, M.P., at New Lynn. "Instead of that," he added, "We find that the money has been diverted and that the Government has decided to proceed with the construction of a railway through pumice lands to Taupe. I put the question straight -to the Prime Minister, Does not the decision of the Government to build the Taupo line mean that the Morningside work has been postponed? 1 The reply waa that matters of policy must be considered before the Morningside work could proceed. That is equivalent to saying that it is a question whether or not the work will be done at

A RICH MATS GOVERHMEVT. "No Government has promised mora and achieved lees than Reform!" said Mr. R. B. Spears, United candidate for Auckland West. "Under the present administration New Zealand has suffered a greater setback than she experienced in two generations immediately preceding the Coates regime. A few wealthy men have been made more wealthy, and money has been lavished on certain districts to keep Government seats sale, but the industrialist and the workihgman.generally have been left to suffer." REFORM'S BACKWARD FLIP. "The Government is like the ""i who recently walked backwards from the Remuera terminus to St. HelierV said an elector, in moving a vote of to the Labour candidate for ParnelL Reform has been walking backwards for at least three years. They have been going downhill, and in the dark, just as the eccentric walker!" As the laughter subsided there came a voice from the back, "Reform will be Wil in the mud and heels in the air on election day!"