CAMPAIGN NOTES

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18525, 29 October 1925, Page 8

CAMPAIGN NOTES

Taxes and Unemployment "Labour's scheme to * sions and give mothera** *S!** would cost ten millions a j3t** they advocate a rigorous htSi?* get this amount. B ut if aU £?J incomes over £4009 or £3Mto ■■*%» ; were completely confiscated^!,**». ! >' iohl * nl r «..000.000. aad Z^ | lions would have to come 2? * ordinary people. A^^Jtfc ! lax wouid have to be levied tT* S | tlm amount, and -rindin j ** ■ bring ib** 8 Lyons, at St. .Martins last * Nationalists' Proper Place. '•lt seems to me that have no home/' said the ter at Bulls ] 2st evening proper pla,e :s in h, hioa JJ» .night .-all me a Tory „r a <wjj tive. 1 don't care what All I want is to get somrtMto*** and the name won't niatier. teal!s what Keform means, it meta* «! elimination of ail that is b»4 initial ion of all that is gooa.'»-|LI! correspondent. I^ sl « Party Government. , " Vou :uv nevor soing to from Parly Government,'* W J£ Prime Minister at Marion yttta*!* "fused to think the ideal wasl*jZ free, independent men. I that that was no goo,}. Xe* «2 would a man in such a position in the lur.h, but he would cot be J? to help any Party in planning t» « anything done, as no know where he was."—Spccij JZ* pondent. The Eight Immigrants. "What we need iu Canterbar? g, men and women -who will go e4 : -s| stay out in the country. If ffafa the right class of immigrants, wW«t be obtained from Ireland, Scotland,*** the rural counties of England,HW»iS tend to eheck the disproportion it n& lation between the town country. At present wc are geUt»t» many artisans and not enough fea workers."—Mr M. E. Lyons, at |fc. Martins last night. Butter. Mr W. E. Lcadley.the didate for' Avon was subjected tti great deal of heckling at his Irjtfci street meeting the other night; Jk candidate, however, took the ltetsSj| in good part, and registered Mffifjs| scores before tho evening was ovtf.]s) was speaking of the increased Go&ii charges and mentioned that these M all been made on luxuries. his opponents to name any ttts| which could be considered an €sicitp| commodity on which an incretsteSSjl toms tariff had been levied. One persistent heckler in tie fap.-; vow immcdiatelv called omj "BbSS; What about butter? That.i(%W up!" t*%M "That is about as intelligwliS mark as wo have had front **rJS|| ad the evening." replied Mr Imß "Ho is evidently not aware of JKfiw/ that wo make butler in New m&jm and do not import it. I a&iglfi|l that if I was to invite hint oa WW©' platform to let him sneak, he '■wfflN able to tell you everything hj» less than one minute!'' '*%%! Cost of Living. "" ,Z£]m„'. "Every man who read ii**lftj tiou of war iu th» newspapers *Bi years ago, and diu sot realise day had dawned which would m»k« mm poorer, was not capable of sei f|§ thought. A burden lias been e&sl|l| everybody by the war debt, andl|j|| felt in the decreased pur&asing |**jff of money. This cannot be avoiMHi am out as a worker, to see tjw&jgg; workman receives from his just as m"uch as the industry CA* fflp 'to pay him."—Mr M. E. Lyqn%J|«; s Martins, last night.' Je, Liberals and the Unions. -|p "You never hear the Liberal jllffiN, say a word about unions to-day, JjjjlffiF was the unions that bad Liberalism in the proud it once occupied."—Mr J. » Sffip, Manus at Dunedin South. 1 |W J Labour Leopards. i nm>'Mr W. H. Field, M.P., spt&3f< Ohariu, remarked that the !§£»;,, candidates were very being called Socialists, and IJ|3H;|; objective of their Party, its liffip dation, was tho stwia I isatim* <*>;»' means of production, distnbul^lK v exchange, which was gssePtßWMgT samo objective adopted bv ist and Communist Parties »WB|I out the world. The Party was fIMHB pedalling for all they were i«fm j What, said Mr Field, wo* "•"13S. imr of tho word was not the act of socialism-, had favoured or advocated «5$W but tho Socialist? Mr Holto»|i» leader of the Party, said ** 59Er raent: "I am prepared to. gfI&HV brand of revolutionary goeta»»»gim supporters are now. hoffewr, P»- ; off because they findit is BWM| able electioneering. The kyffijapl Mr Field, cannot change ll certainly not as suddenly.asiWJ|| chameleon might possibly to **T|f 1 SUCCCSS - : ,-*»1 Their Eyes Opened. '-^MMr M. E. 'Lyon?, Reform *|*|fflr for Lyttclton, entertained ois at St. Martins last evening •W'lS amusing stories when illastrttWf m points. In emphasising the 1 the electors of the Dominion to the menace of extreme •SfSw' Lvons told a story of a I,u had as pets two kittens. -wJHjfflf; were verv young she called and Peter, after the two Labour leaders. Later »W that she had altered theirJlKffi' Gordon and Mac, after *«**£s tcrs. "But these «' c |I U, S;i t tens," remonstrated a caUer ">^lgMi h ' they have their eyes open *?Wj.the reply. t '-* t *?\