CANDIDATES.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16701, 9 December 1919, Page 8

CANDIDATES.

to the editor or "thm raws." Sir.—Yon aro already aware of a porsistc'i.y noise. It will increase in volume and pitch for the next ten days. It ia the mentioning of candidates for Parliamentary honours. Sorao of these mentioning sound like a con] srnttle <rith tflngß and fire shore] in it falling down the backstairs. Others striko the ear more agreeably. It is agreeable, for example, to near mention of men like Mr Robert Macartney, one of the candidates for Lyttelton, because ho has spent the whole of his life in intimate contact with those practical affairs by which the world pets its living. One would judge from hearsay and observation that he would know off- \ hnnd, that for tile purpose of driving j industrial mnchinorv steam is moro ! dependable than wind. Ore also gets from his utterances < the impression that he does not regard farming or business ns a crime, whirh may be goodnnturedly tolerated when lit "is in the small or petty larceny state, but which requires the sternest

repression when it assumes tho larger or hotnicitl.il state. Mr Macartney lias during his campaign made it, plain that ho is ona of tlioso men of weight, and poise, and solid understanding, men witli a nip upon those practical affairs upon whose sane management not only our bread nnd liutter. but our happiness, as a matter of actual cxpcricnee, largely depond. Wo want nothing resembing a Bolshevik Utopia, in which theory flourishes while tho real human beings hunger and nerish. Tho Lvttelton electorate is to b< congratulatod upon having a candidato with horso sense nnd practical exportcnce.—Yours, etc., stability:. ' 1 > i i i