ELECTION SHOTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 261, 4 November 1935, Page 10

ELECTION SHOTS.

ON THE HUSTINGS. JESTS AND PASSING QUIPS. ONE FOR THE MARINES. Mr. Coatcs: What is the difference between a real Conservative and a real Labour man? For the life of me I cannot tell the difference. NOBODY'S BLIND FAN. "I am a blind follower of nobody," announced Mr. E. D. Stailworthy, National Government candidate for Auckland West, at Heme Bay, in answer to a question. "If any legislation is brought down for the benefit of the masses it will have my support. I have not given any pledges and I am free to do so." WOOD ON NAPOLEON. Mrs. Knox Gilmer, urging a policy of State afforestation, told her audience at Wellington what had occurred in ether countries when the forests were destroyed. What happened at St. Helena? she asked rhetorically. An elector replied that Napoleon had been sent there. "Yes," agreed the candidate, "but he longed for the trees of France." To this the interjector rejoined, "Oh, but they had the wood on him!" CATSPAWS OF PAWNS. "There has sprung up in the political life of this country a weed which savours of American Tammanyism," said Mr. Butler, Labour candidate for Wellington Suburbs. "We have seen the creation of new parties every election. These parties have no roots in the social life of the people and are the creation of cunning men who make catspaws of ambitious-pawns and gamble with the destinies of the nation in an unscrupulous and sordid manner. This must cease. The Labour party on assuming office will enact legislation making it compulsory for the names and amounts, of all contributors and contributions to political party funds to be made public." SHOWING OXFORD HOW. Most people would agree that the Democrat policy might be fairly described as a mixed bag. Possibly this influence was responsible for the confusion of metaphors which Mr. N. R Jacobson, Democrat candidate for Napier, crowded into about CO words when ho said: The cancer of maladministration would be cauterised by the surgery of the common sense of the Democrat party, which would eliminate the present trail of taxes. If the Democrat party were returned to power a new awakening would follow. The cloak of unemployment would be discarded, the machine would be reversed and the country would head for general activity. ALL THOSE WHO FAVOUR? The belief that industrial peace was being achieved under the present system of conciliation and that the main body of workers did not want to see the Arbitration Court restored was expressed by Mr. O. C. Mazengarb, National Government candidate for Wellington East, when speaking at Hataitai. "The various organisations in the New Zealand Alliance of Labour don't want the Arbitration Court, and they won't have the Arbitration Court," said Mr. Mazengarb. "They say they get on much better by sitting down in conference with the employers and settling things among themselves. The only people who are calling out for the Arbitration Court are a few trade union | secretaries, but the main body of workers won't have anything to do with it, and even if the right to go to the Court were restored they wouldn't go." HIS DOUBTS RESOLVED. Some amusement was caused at Mr. E. D. Stallworthy's opening meeting at Herne Bay. Mr. Stailworthy, the National Government candidate for Auckland West, had been reading his speech for about ten minutes when a man at the back of the hall rose and said: "A point of order, Mr. Chairman. Is this the National Government candidate for City West, or is this someone reading a speech for him ? I came in late and did not hear the chairman's remarks." Mr. C. H. T. Palmer (chairman): This is the National Government candidate. The Man: Thank you. Later Mr. Stailworthy paused and remarked, "It's very difficult to find in this pamphlet." The Man: Like their promises, they'll be difficult to find, too, after this election. (Applause.) |