THE GRAIN AND THE CHAFF

Evening Star, Issue 22192, 21 November 1935, Page 18

THE GRAIN AND THE CHAFF

HARVEST OF THE HUSTINGS Point of Agreement. “ Jf yon think the Government was wrong m trying, within the last lour years, to live within its income, you will not agree with anything 1 say.” —Hon. W. Downie Stewart at lloslyn last ngiht. Dominion’s Biggest Industry. “ Next to racing and football, unemployment is New Zealand’s biggest industry.” The Rev. Clyde Carr at Highfield last night. “ That Woman.” “ When I first came out the Opposition paid me the compliment of saying 1 was a very brave woman,” said Mrs R. S. Black, Democratic candidate for Dunedin North, at Albany Street Hall last night. “ Now I am referred to as ‘ that woman,’ I must be getting dangerous. And. believe me, 1 will be dangerous on the 27th.” Wife He Hasn’t Got, The National Government’s system of taxation was like taxing the bachelor for the wife he hasn’t got, said Mr James Cartwright, Democratic candidate for the Temuka scat, in.one of his addresses, A Minister’s Experience. Referring to Labour’s avowed policy to assist the development of New Zealand secondary industries, -the Hon. W. Downie Stewart said, at Roslyn last night, that when he .was Minister of Customs he could never rely with surety or security on the support of the Labour Party to any measures he brought down to help industries.

Innocent on Two Counts. “ A man told me the other day that the only thing the Government could not be blamed for was the defeat of the All Blacks at Swansea,” said Mr W. P. Endean, National Government candidate for Parnell. A Voice: “And the Hawke’s Bay earthquake.” Time to See the World. “I am certain of this,” said Blr J. B. Donald, Democrat candidate for Auckland East, “ that when a man has been in Parliament for nine or ten years it is time he stepped out see what the world is like—to see what it is like to earn a living.” “ You don’t need to after 10 years, commented an iuterjector. No Ancient History, Speaking of education at Albany Street Hall last night, Mrs R. S. Black, Democratic candidate for Dunedin North, said: “A morq cursory study of ancient history and a more intensive study of modern affairs would be beneficial.” “ Rash and Audacious.” “It is rash and audacious for any party in New Zealand to say ‘ BVe can euro unemployment,’ when its party in other countries has failed to do so. . . There is an element of cruelty in promising that all men will be back at work in a few days.”—Hon. W. Downie Stewart. Local Dictatorship. “ We do not need to go to Italy or Germany for a dictatorship—we have it in our midst,” said Blrs R. S. Black, Democratic candidate fo.r Dunedin North at Albany Street Hall last night. Cure of Unemployment. “If I thought the Labour Party could cure unemployment, within a short time, I would bo the first to support it,” said the Hon. W. Downie Stewart at Roslyn last night. “ I would be prepared to drop out or politics if I thought this great and saddening problem of unemployment had an immediate solution by any party. Why Not Whisky? The Voice from Hokonui; “ Why not make your own whisky?” asked Mr N. BDlntyre, Independent candidate for Awarua, when speaking at Winton. “Why not make it here? We can manufacture good whisky in New Zealand, and grow splendid barley, too. When you are finished with the barley it makes splendid fodder. The growing of barley would be a splendid sideline for the ■ farmers. Why go out of the country for your whisky, when you can keep your money in your own country?” Examples Overseas. “ If you 'ask me what endorsement there is of the Government’s policy _, I ’say, if it were possible to avoid doing what was done by the Government of New Zealand, why is it that the only countries now coming through the storm successfully and beginning to find themselves on the high road to prosperity did exactly as was done in this country, and those which did not adopt the stern and resolute course are still floundering in the morass?” — Hon. B\i • Downie Stewart. New Zealand Born I “ It was stated recently to one of my supporters that a certain elector of Dunedin Central would not support my candidature because I was not a native of New Zealand,” said Mr P. Neilson, at Kensington last evening. “It so happens,” said Mr Neilson, “ that I was born in Dunedin, but, as I have made known on previous occasions, my parents were of Danish extraction, and 1 am not ashamed of that fact.” “ Anyhow,” said the candidate, “ I am in good company, for the late Queen Alexandra, the. wife of King Edward VII., was a native of Denmark.” Definitely, No! “At a meeting in this hall a few evenings ago,” said a lady elector at Blr A. E. Anscll’s meeting at Woodside last night, “ a statement was made that if Labour were returned to power there would not only be shorter working hours, but farmers’ wives would receive wages. Have you anything better than that to offer? Amid loud laughter, the candidate replied : “No; definitely No I”