CAMPAIGN NOTES

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 4

CAMPAIGN NOTES

. Mr. A. N. Poison was nominated as a.candidate for .Wellington North yesterday. He was nominated by J. D. Martin M'lntyre, estate agent, La-mb-ton-quay, and C. V. K. Goulter, barrister and solicitor, Kelburn. An interjector commenced to interrogate Mr; Holland at Kelburn last night. The Chairman intervened: "We don't mind a few_ interjections, but we can'jt have a running fire." "Well, you should keep Comrade Dowdall away from the other njeetings." "I wish, :we could," said Mr. Holland. "I would have no objection, to Comrade Dowdall being gagged or hobbled. He is the best asset the Tory side has in this fight." "We are inclined to forget.the work done by our men who went to Samoa,'' said Mr. J. P. Luke at his Wadestown meeting last night. "They went to the battle front as surely as those who went to ; France. They did not know what they were going to or the conditions they would be tip against; and I say that those boys who round the flag at the outbreak of war are entitled to a high measure of appreciation from the people of New Zealand for all time." . "The action •of your win4he-war Government has meant almost two million pounds extra to the wheat capitalists of New Zealand," said Mr. H. E. Holland at Kelburn last night. " When Mr. Massey was asked, to lift the duty on flour because of the shortage in the Dominion he said that if. you interfered with the law of supply and demand there would be disaster, but when it is in the interests of the wheat capitalists it is the right thing to interfere with the same j law and prohibit the importation of Australian wheat and flour altogether. There were hundreds of tons of wheat l-otting in Australia, and:if that were,'allowed to come to New Zealand the prices would be much lower. "Who does the wheat belong to?" asked a member of the audience. "To the' British Government," said someone. Mr. Holland replied that the ■ wheat was held up and the price high by reason of the .action of a Government which, had no concern for the people. Speaking at Wadestown last night, Mr. J. P. Luke said that he went to the Financial Assistance Board with two young men who wanted help in purchasing a launch for fishing in the Sounds. The board, however, could not possibly help them, and he contended that the board's powers should be strengthened so as ,to enable it to .help men to earn a living in a greater variety of ways.