WIT AND POLITICS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 221, 26 September 1938, Page 10

WIT AND POLITICS.

ELECTION HUMOUR. SHOTS FROM THE HUSTINGS. RUINED BY GOOD TIMES. "I have been able to discover only one person who is justified in stating that the Labour party's policy has spoilt his business," remarked the Minister of Education (the Hon. P. Fraser), speaking at Wellington. "There is one man who has said he is not going to vote for Labour because ite policy hae made it impossible for him to carry on, and he is going to vote for the Government's opponents so that he can prosper again. He is a fellow who owned no lese than three eecond-hand clothes shops during the depression. (Laughter.) He is the one genuine sample of a business man ruined by Labour that I have found yet." BAFFERTY RULES. When he took over the Transport Department, eaid the Hon. R. Semple at Opunake, RafTerty's rnlee prevailed, there being no system. It was "get in, get out, or get under —and it was mostly get under!" NOT RESPONSIBLE. "What would Mr. Nash do in such circumstances?" asked an inter jector during Mr. W. J. Poison's address at Lepperton. "I am not responsible, thank Ciod, for anything Mr. Nash would do," replied Mr. Poison amid laughter. EFFECTIVE REPLY. "Do you stand for prohibition or continuance? Are you wet or dry?" asked a male questioner of Mrs. Knux Gilnier, Liberal candidate for Wellington North, at the conclusion of her campaign addrese in the Taranaki Street Mission Hall. Without speaking Mrs. Giimer gave her questioner an enigmatic reply that "brought the house down." Sla; reached for the glass of water on the table in front of her and drank irom it. HOMEWORK BROADCAST! Another nightmare for parents? A suggestion that radio broadcasting should be used for imparting information to children at home in the evenings was made by the Labour candidate for Wellington Suburbs, Mr. H. E. L'onilw, speaking at Wadestown. Mr. Combs said children took too much work home from school. Teachers, having listened in, could deal with the subject of the broadcast in classes next day. "WHAT'S THIS?" An amusing coincidence the cause of a roar of laughter at the big meeting addressed by the Hon. P. Fraser in the St. John Ambulance Hall, Vivian Street, Wellington. Referring to one of the statements in tho National party manifesto, Mr. Fraser said: "It would make anyone say, 'Hullo, what's this?"' The Minister had just begun to speak tin* phrase when a newspaper photographer, bent on catching Mr. Fraser in action, fired a flashlight, momentarily startling the audience. The appropriateness of Mr. Fraeer'e words was apparent at once. "YOU ARE THE JURY." "On October 15 you will be empanelled as a great national jury to pass judgment on the people of the Labour party who have been working for the benefit of New Zealand," said the Hon. R. Semple in New Plymouth last night. "Maybe you will say 'For all your faults we love you still, but we think you had better take a rest.' The alternative was for the voters to say, 'Well done thou good and faithful servant; go back and step on it.'" FA(*f NEARLY ADMITTED? At the Labour Club on Saturday evening, the Hon. P. Fraeer, Minister of Education, was explaining the enthusiasm of the record crowd at Wellington, which overflowed the Town Hall for Mr. Savage's opening policy address. "Now, if this meeting had been in Auckland —of course, I don't say that your climate is better than that of Wellington, but it's different — the people would have stood in Upper Queen Street and Lower Queen Street listening, for Aucklanders really don't mind standing in the open air." "Yes, our climate is pretty good," added a wag."