ELECTION QUIPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 251, 23 October 1928, Page 5

ELECTION QUIPS.

FROM VARIOUS PLATFORMS.

LIGHTER SIDE OF POLITICS.

MR. COATES AND HIS JOB.

Few questions were asked at the conclusion of Mr. A. J. Stall worthy'a address at the Epsom Library last evening, but the one that set the ball rolling won. a lot oi smiles.

"Is the candidate aware that when Mr. Coates went Home he was told that he was not fit to hold his job?" asked a male voice from the back of the hall.

"I did not hear that, and I would hardly give credence to the report, as I do not think that the British statesmen would say anything so rude," answered the candidate. "TURNING THE CORNER." "The Prime Minister is the slave of fatuous catch phrases," said Mr. A. B. Sievwright at Ohau on .Saturday. "He frequently talks about our having Turned'the corner.' In three years the number' of individual holders of farm land in the Dominion has decreased by 405. There are over 12,000 fewer people settled on the land, and bankruptcies have increased by over 30 per cent. The corner that the Coates party will turn for Xew Zealand leads down to the abyss of national disaster." WHAT REFORMERS SHOULD SAT. Mr. S. G. Smith (United party candidate for Taranaki) read at his New Plymouth meeting last week some Reform party propaganda as supplied to candidates, wherein Reform candidates were advised not to say much against the Labour party, except that the real fight was between Reform and Labour. Attempts were made to belittle the United party. Mr. Smith spoke at some length on the recent United party conference, and said that the United party would be found to be a strong fighting force. Sir Joseph Ward was unanimously elected leader after the names of very \ prominent men, including some in Taranaki, had beea discussed. - Sir Joseph Ward had had a great hearing in Auckland, but attempts were being made to belittle his speech.

"YOU STOLE THAT PIECE." The Liberal party, said" Mr. C. A. Loughnan (United party candidate), at Palmerston North the other evening, still stood for its land settlement policy, which had an enormous importance in relation to the unemployment problem, which was disaster coming home to roost. What was the remedy? The wealth of an exporting and producing country came from the tend, and if it was starved the towns would suffer likewise. In the last five yean 13,900 people had gone off the land, while Reform had poured in a stream of immigrants without providing a livelihood for them. A Voice: You stole that piece, Mister." MR. COATES AS A STJPER-MAIf. In his address at the Palmerston North Opera House, Mr. C. A. Loughnan (United Party candidate for the seat) stated that in 1935 Mr. Coates came in as a super-man on a wave of great emotion. ... A Voice: Give us a little bit of politics. The candidate stated that Mr. Coates had failed to perform as expected. They knew the fiasco of the Dairy Control Act, while the Motor Regulations Act ]ud raised a storm of indignation from one end of the country to the other. Mr. Coates represented the Conservative element, which had adapted to itself the Liberal policy and had put forward in the 1925 manifesto all the liberal principles garnered from previous history. .(Cries of hear! hear!). "If ever there was a cuckoo in the nest it' was when the Keform party took the benches on that manifesto/' declared Mr. Loughnan, who said he would make a comparison between the Reform and United parties. A Voice: There's no difference.