ELECTION SHOTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 268, 12 November 1935, Page 11

ELECTION SHOTS.

ON THE HUSTINGS.

JESTS AND PASSING QUIPS.

AN AMATEUR LAUREATE,

Boards to left of them, Boards to right of them; Into the valley of debt Went the Coalition Government. —Mr. A. S. Richards, Labour candidate for Roskill. SITTING STARVING. "You can imagine a grub sitting on a ripe apple and starving because it has no money. That's what we are doing in this country, which is full of plenty."— Mr. W. J. Jordan, Labour candidate for Manukau, at Onehunga last ni^ht. "JUST SLIGHTLY PINK." Criticising the Democrat party at Northcote last- night, Mr. A. Harris, Independent National Government candidate for Waitemata, said that the Democrats professed themselves to be anti-Socialistic. "They arc against the red Socialism of the Labour party," he added, "and the just slightly pink Socialism of the National party." SPOILING THE BROTH. "If the Coalition has made such a hash of things, and you say Labour will put us in the stew, what will an incompetent lot of cooks like you do for us?" was a question asked Dr. G. J. Adams, Democrat candidate for Patea, at a recent meeting at Hawera. The candidate had admitted that not many of the party had had previous Parliamentary experience.

WITH A SMALL "D." "I am a ut...jcrat," said the Kev. Clyde* Carr, Labour candidate for Timaru. "I do not spell the word with a capital letter," he continued; "that is a horse, or a mule, of anoth.r colour. Its parentage is doubtful; its future is more than doubtful. It is already fair other than ito progenitors either intended or expected." ■: ■:.. • SAID "YES" AGAIN. . "The candidate has said 'yes' to everything; will he reply 'yes' to this one?" asked an elector of Mr. H. B. Arthur, Democrat candidate for Grey Lynn, last night. "What is the question?" inquired the chairman. "Will the candidate iend me two bob!" "Yes, I'll lend you two bob," replied Mr. Arthur amid- laughter. PITY POSTERITY! "In 20 years the people ■ : this Dominion have paid in interest on the country's debt £141,432,000," said Mr. W. T. Anderton, Labour candidate for Eden, at the Congregational Hall, View Road, last evening. "You are paying it now, your children will be it, your children's children will be paying it, and the debt will then be bigger than it is now—unless you put Labour in." COINCIDENCE OR OMEN? Speaking at New Plymouth, the sitting 'Government member, Mr. S. G. Smith, said lie had heard a. c mplaint that the trams were being ueed for political advertising purposej, and that one of the candidates was billed on the tram boards. The Minister said he had had a look at the advertisement that was complained of, and no 'cad that the board read: "Vote Democrat." He also noticed the answer to that another board on the other end of the tram, which read: "No ; No, Naj ett-."