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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 55, 28 November 1928, Page 17

The closeness of political parties recalls the 1914 elections, when the fate of the Government appeared to rest upon the vote of the Maori member for the North. Mr. Tan Ileimre (says the "Auckland Star”). Neither of the two larger parlies knew how this vote was to he cast, and several enterprising pressmen interviewed the member in question. He was delightfully vague to all. To one reporter he said, when asked how his vote would go: “I give you two guesses.” To another scribe who put the same question his reply was: “Wait until the karakn berry is ripe”: and to n third he said: ‘ First' I stand on one leg and then mi the other." When Parliament settled down In- hail occasion only to stand on one log. as lie voted for Retorm and Ims given them his allegiance ever since. •