LABOUR CANDIDATES

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1935, Page 10

LABOUR CANDIDATES

ADDRESSES AT HUNTLY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) HUNTLY, Sunday. A strong appeal to all present to vote for the Labour party at the coming election was made by Mr. P. C. Webb. Labour member for Ruller, Mr. R. Coulter, Mayor of Te Arolia, who is a Labour candidate for the Waikato electorate, which includes Starrtown and Kimihia, and Mr. W. Lee Martin, Labour candidate for Raglan, at a well-attended meeting held in the Lyceum Theatre, Huntly, on Friday evening. The Mayor, Mr. W. C. E. George, presided.

Mr. Martin said that the coming election was the most important for the past 40 years. If it depended on the farmers' vote he felt sure Labour would bo returned to power. He believed it was Labour's year, and he was sure Iluntly would vote Labour as it had always done. The policy of the Labour party would be to give work to all unemployed.

j Mr. Coulter said ho had decided to i become a candidate as lie had had so I much to do with unemployed. The I policy of the Labour party was to recon- ' struct the country. He referred to the i big sum of money, derived from wages J and unemployment taxes, which was ! being held by the Government, and its j refusal to listen to protests on behalf iof the unemployed from all over the | country. Women, he said, should not 1 vote for the present Government, as they j were taxed the same as the men, but | received no assistance when unemployed. | Ho criticised the Government's action in reducing the widows' and orphans' allowances in order to balance the Budget. Mr. Webb stated that he had that day paid a visit to Rotowaro carbonisation works and he had noticed thousands of i tons of coal being destroyed by fire. I Every ton of coal represented 80 gallons of petrol and many other by-products. He considered it scandalous that the Government allowed such waste. If the Labour Government was returned every effort would be made to make full use of that potential asset. He said he [would like to see the coal industry controlled by the State, and miners working nat more than six hours per day. The Labour party would do more for the Maoris in three years than any Government had ever done. GREY LYNN SEAT. GOVERNMENT CANDIDATE CHOSEN. Mr. G. Wildisli, ex-Mayor of Gisborne, has been selected as the National Government candidate for the Grey Lynn seat. Mr. Wildish lived 40 years in Gisborne. He was Mayor of Gisborne for eight years, and took a very prominent part in Gisborne local body life. He is a justice of the peace. He contested the Gisborne seat in 1925 against Mr. W. D. Lysnar. KAIPARA ELECTORATE. MR. COATES' "LONG START." (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DARGAVILLE, this day. Addressing the electors of Kaipara in the Empire Theatre, the Democrat candidate, Mr. John Caughley, made it clear that he had not, as had been suggested, taken an unfair advantage of the sitting member by prosecuting his campaign while Mr. Coates was obliged to remain in Wellington on Parliamentary duties. He had, he said, refrained from entering the electorate, oven for organising work, until the sitting member had returned from overseas and then had not held a public meeting until Mr. Coates had addressed two large meetings. "On the other hand," said Mr. Caughley, "I can say that the sitting member has had 20 years' start of me. (Laughter.)

The candidate dealt particularly with the questions of exchange and the Mortgage Corporation and their effects on the farming community.

BAY OF ISLANDS SEAT. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) KAIKOHE, this day. Sir. Clive Cameron has been selected as the National Government Candida;? for the Bay of Islands seat in place of the late Mr. R. B. Russell. Mr. Cameron, who is manager of the Kaikohe branch of the North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative, was born in Dunedin in 1895. He has been a member of the Kaikohe Town Board for four years and its chairman for over a year. During tlu? Great War he saw active service in France and rose to the rank of lieutenaut.