CAMPAIGN SHOTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 5

CAMPAIGN SHOTS.

"BROKE TEN COMMANDMENTS!" "When I first sat for Parliament people said that I had broken the Ten Commandments and that I was sorry that there were not another ten to break." — Mr. R. A. Wright, in pointing out to Mr. Endean the slanders cast on candidates for Parliament. THE HOLLANDS. "Don't think that I am Harry Holland, leader of the Labour party/' said Mr. H. Holland, M.P. for Christchurch Xorth, at St. Helier's Bay. ''A good deal of confusion ha 3 arisen from the similarity of our names. Several times the Union Co. have given us the same cabin in the trip across Cook Strait, and on at least ine occasion the same berth." NEWS TO HIM. "Are you aware tnat married men have been put off at the Public Works camp and Dalmations have been V-pt on?" was a question put to Mr. A. Donald, the United party candidate, last evening. Mr. Donald: I did not know that; it is news to mi. The Questioner: Well, it's tvue, hicause I am one of the men put off. LABOUR'S CREST. "I saw the crest at tlie top of the Labour party's advertisement," said Mr. Donald at Kohimarama last evening. ''That crest is "Agitate, Educate and Organise." The keynote is agitate. Agitators are not wanted in Xew Zealand. They are a menace anywhere, and you as workers should have nothing to do with them. They are proceeding along wrong lines. "AN UNHOLY MESS." Mr. Donald at St. Heliers: I say without fear of contradiction that the Reform party cannot do tins country any good, They tried for 16 years and failed, and left the country in what T may describe as an unholy mess. The United party's idea is to clean up that mess. They have only been at it one year, and I think any fair-minded person will admit United have not done badly. WHERE COLUMBUS STOOD. "The Hon. A. J. Stallworthy introduced Columbus to his audience the other night. Mr. Stallworthy told them that the United party stands where Columbus stood—that is, he admits that the United party is now 300 years behind the times." —Mr. Bloodworth. IN THE MUD. "On the word of both parties, the country is in the mud. It is, therefore, up to the Labour party to get it out of the mud. They need a good driver for their bullocks." —Mr. Bloodworth. MEN AND PRINCIPLES. "At recent elections, the people havebeen asked to vote, not for principle but for men. Before it was Coatee, last election it was Sir Joseph Ward — Xew Zealand's only statesman," said Mr. T. Bloodworth last evenhig. "The Labour party is bound to no one man, but it is pledged to support definite principles."