POLITICAL ARENA

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 122, 20 November 1922, Page 8

POLITICAL ARENA

THE AUCKLAND FIELD

PRIME MINISTER^ MISSION

NO STRIKING DEVELOPMENTS

(II TBLIORAPH.— SPECUI, TO THI POBf.J

! AUCKLAND, This Day. All the candidates in the city and suburban electorates have now addressed the electors once or oftener. The second I week of the campaign produced no strik- ! ing developments, the chief feature of interest being the speech delivered by Mr. T. M. Wilford on Monday. The third week is opening with a 1 series of addresses" by the Prime Minister in various districts in which official Government candidates are faced with more or less strong opposition. Mr. Massey spoke first at D^vonport, a portion of the Waitemata electorate in Which the Liberal vote has always been strong. To-night he will speak" at Otahuhu, which is in the Franklin electorate. Other speeches are to be delivered by Mr. Massey in Auckland West, Koskill, and Parnell. ■ In Auckland West the Reform can- ' didate, Mr. Farrell, -is meeting with strong opposition from Mr. M. J. Savage/ the retiring member, and the issae is by no means certain. In Roskill and Parnell the splitting of the Beform vote is investing both contests with considerable importance, and the coming speeches by Mr. Massey will enhance the interest attached to these two seats. , The Hon. C. j. Parr has been subjected to considerable heckling at his meetings during the week, but they were confined mainly to one man with a personal grievance, real or fancied, against the Minister, and the noisy outburst of | some students who have not reached the years of discretion. Mr. Parr's seat may be regarded as safe, and the same remark appliesi to the Hon. J. G Coates's (Kaipara), whose opponent, Mr. E. S. Hornblow, is adding yet another to his many attempts to enter Parliament. Mr. A. E. Glover has spoken, but has not thrown mucTi new light on political problems, although he believes he has given the electors of Auckland Central a good evening's entertainment. Mr. Clutha Mackenzie, who spoke on Friday, had a good reception, and maintained the favourable impression created when he firat faced the electors a year agq-