PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES.

Evening Star, Issue 19839, 12 April 1928, Page 13

PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES.

TO TUB EDITOR. Sir,--As the election for Parliament draws near, rumor is busy over probable candidates. Mr Ansell’s name has been put forward as a possible candidate. One wonders what cairns, outside his activities on behalf of the motoring public, Mr Ansell can put forward as a representative for parliamentary honors. His advocacy of the motorist claim to the road is quite sufficient to any reasonable elector to reason that his sympathies are only for one class. The man we want in Parliament is one that will do his best to divert the tremendous amount,of money annually leaving the dominion for motors and petrol into a revenue-earning channel. New Zealand is to-day paying dearly for the extravagance of motoring, and if this annual loss is not stopped the time is coming when it will take all our exports to pay for this tremendous annual waste, and money for development purposes will have to be raised by increased taxation. For all Mr Ansell is a jolly good fellow, yet we do not want a motorist enthusiast as our representative. Quite the reverse. Then one wonders what Labor means if it is true that Mr Gilchrist is again to be Labor’s nominee. If this is true I consider that the Labor Party is out deliberately to insult the returned soldier. Does Labor think that Dunedin citizens, who are without doubt absolutely loyal, so easily forget Air Gilchrist’s activities against recruiting during the war time? Are we to iorget Mr Gilchrist’s loyalty to the returned men, when his' shop was open l tho day of the memorial celebration ? Has Labor forgotten the “ slating ” the electors received from Mr Gilchrist when he was previously defeated? As a returned man who was in the trenches when Mr Gilchrist used his influence to stop reinforcements coming to help ns, I say that the nomination of Dir Gilchrist, for parliamentary.honors will ho the biggest insult to returned men that Labor can offer, and I call on all my old comrades to show at the ballot box their indignation against Labor’s nominee. If Labor wishes to gain at election time it will have to place in the field a different sort of candidate. Labor would do well to reconsider this nomination, as a bitter organised opposition will be offered to Mr Gilchrist’s candidature and election, and many votes diverted from the Labor cause.—l am" etc.. T.M. April 11.