CANDID ADVICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 269, 13 November 1928, Page 8

CANDID ADVICE.

"VOTE FOR UNITED MAN."

LABOUR WOMAN'S DIRECTIONS.

ELECTOR WHO SOUGHT GUIDANCE.

"There, is only one thing you can dopvote for the United mam"- Such is ihe advice of-Mrs.;.Margarefe Young, Indei pendent Labour candidate ■.' i i or "Wellington. CentraL in a letter far Mr. Geo. N - . Carlson; % Airedale Street, Auckland.' ', Mr. Carlson wrote to Mrs." Yoiing •on November 4, as follows: "I write as one who is genuinely 'seeking political guidance. I take my politics seriously and value ijay vote, and as an elector of Auckland ; East, wherein there are three contestants of varying politics —Reform, Liberal and Labour—l am in a dilemma as to how to vote to advantage in the face of your reported remarks anent the Labour leaders of this Dominion. I make haste toexplain ,that. I could never vote in, favour, of the Reform candidate, Aβ.. I hold Reform; responsible for the distressing conditions that are now prevailing. Hence it is for either the Liberal or the Labour candidate that I must vote.

"Your being the wife of one of the veteran Labour, pioneers of this countrv places you in the'position ofbeing abfe to. rerider exceptional advice on a matter such as this, and I can assure you that I would be grateful for guidance from you, based as it would be on your 'inside knowledge.' ' .

"I must say that I have been favour-, ably impressed with your outspoken attitude, which suggests a splendid attri-Dute—-that of individualism and courage of your convictions." Mr. Carlson, in; a postscript, stated that the- letter was not to be looked upon' a« confidential, a» from Ms point of vieAr the staffer ynm. generally "open." "On November 12 Mrs. Margaret Young! wrote in replyj— '1 duly received your letter of November 4 and thought I would get a little of my campaign work through before answering it. I suppose you have read "my speeches. You will realise that I am sincere, and, having* the -firm belief that New Zealand'would neither prosper nor ■progress under the present Labour leaders--if- they commanded the situation, I have no hesitation in saying-we must vote them out.

"You .say you da not care for the Coates party. Then there is only one thing you can do—vote for the United man. Thanking you for your good wishes, etc."