GENERAL ELECTION

Franklin Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 124, 29 October 1928, Page 5

GENERAL ELECTION

DATE DRAWING NEAR. THE CONTEST IN FRANKLIN. The date of the general election is drawing near and interest is quickening. In Franklin the two candidates are particularly active and both ai-e having excellent meetings. MR MASSEY'S CAMPAIGN. On Friday night the official Government candidate, Mr J.N. Massey, addressed a big meeting in the Karaka North hall. Mr Walters presided. Mr Massey spoke on similar lines to his previous addresses. He said he had been approached by the Country party and also by Mr H. 0. Mellsop, one •week prior to the latters selection and requested" to contest the seat in the interests of the Country Pary. *'Oid the Country Party want to use me as a tool to exploit the popularity of the ' name of the late Prune Minister?" .asked Mr Mass-v. -As far as 7 am ebneerned I stand now where I stood then, I have not altered my opinion and I am still out to do my best for the farmers. Being i farmer myse'f I •understand the farmers requirements, and I also realise that the prosperity of the Dominion rests on the farmers because if the latter are prosperous every -one else is prosperous," added the candidate. Continuing Mr Massey said he coulc not see eye to eye with the Country Party in lots of things, but that did not mean he was not out to assist the farmers. His interests were the farmers interests but he could not see how the Country Party would get anywhere. They would create disruption among the farmers and were simply playing Into the hands of the Labour Party me contended that the Labour party was using the farmers to achieve its own ends. "Cast your minds back to 1913 when the farmers had to take action -and assist to restore law and order, •and to ship their own produce; and to-day, what is the position ? The Labour Party is striving to obtain the -support of the farmers,, and is using the farmer as a tool," declared the The' candidate answered several •questions and was accorded a hearty vote of thanks and confidence, on the motion of Mr J. Batty seconded by Mr H. L. Farnsworth, amid much enthusiasm. • The retiring member, Mr E. D. McJLennan was also thanked for his efforts on behalf of the electorate, and the wish expressed that he would soon . {be restored to robust health. A vote of thanks to the chairman an excellent meeting.

MR MASSEY AT PAPARATA. Forty-five electors assembled in the Paparata schoolroom on Saturday afternoon to hear Mr J. N. Massey, the -official Reform candidate for Franklin. Mr J. Hood was in the chair. In the course of his address Mr Massey stated that to-day, more goods •were admitted free in New Zealand than into Australia or Canada; that 'New Zealand can borrow in London at a lower rate than Australia can; that the present Government in 1927 formed the Rural Intermediate Credits Board. . _ At the conclusion of the address Mr P Wyatt proposed and Mr J. Rudd seconded a vote of thanks to Mr Massey and confidence in the Reform Party. The proposal was carried unanimously, j A vote of thanks to the chairman .brought the meeting to a close. j MR MASSEY AT WAIAU PA. HOSTILE MOTION REJECTED Mr Massey addressed 72 electors at ■Waiau Pa on Saturday evening. Mr Howard Smith was in the chair. The candidate was accorded a hearty vote of thanks and confidence on the motion of Mr J. McGlune, seconded by Mr J. j Robinson. An amendment of thanks only moved by Mr N. L. Learning and seconded by Mr J. L. Learning, was defeated, only 11 voting for it.

COUNTRY PARTY.

ADDRESSES AT PUKEOWARE AND TE TORA. ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTIONS. Mr H O. Mellsop, the Gountry Party -candidate for Franklin, has had good receptions at his meetings during the past week, though most of the centres Where he delivered his addresses were small ones. He covered a wide range of subjects, dealing with a number of subjects of national importance. Among these were Empire Free Trade, the railway tariff in regard to the extra cost of freight of certain imported articles, which made an unfair discrimination against rural districts, the protective tariff, and British currency

and exchange. On the question of the benzine tax, for which the Reform candidate had .claimed the Counties Association must have the credit of originating, Mr Mell- , sop stoutly upheld the claim of the Farmers' Union as being the first to in the matter. He also upheld the claims of the Farmer's Union to be the originators of Herd Testing and the Main Highways Board. With regard to the securing of the Nauru Island phosphate rock supply, £ Mellsop said that while the Country Party was willing to give the late RigS Hon. W. F- Massey full credit

for Ills action in securing it for New Zealand, the idea actually emanated from the Auckland executive of the Farmers" Union. After making full enquiries on the matter, in which they were aided by the late Mr Cameron, o r Onewhero, they met Sir James Allen, and induced him to cable to Mr Massey to endeavour to secure the concession. At Pukeoware on Friday night, twenty-five electors were present, and after giving Mr Mellsop an attentive hearing a vote of thanks and confidence was carried unanimously upon the motion of Messrs S. Neale and W. Sandcs. At Te Toro on Saturday afternoon about fifty electors attended, and a similar vote, proposed by Mr H. Ashworth, and seconded by Mr W. Holroyd, was also passed unanimously. In the evening a meeting was held at Kohe Kohe, Mr Mellsop's own locality.

THE NOMINATIONS. Nominations for the various seats closed at noon to-day. For Franklin only two were received as follow: — MASSEY, John Norman (Government). MELLSOP, Harry Oswald ( (Country Party) Mr Massey was nominated by Messrs: — E. D. McLennan, farmer, Papakura. F. Perkins, merchant, Pukekohe. J. McCall, farmer, Papakura. A. Willis, retired. Papakura. H. E. R. L. Wily, farmer, Mauku. C. K. Lawrie, /commission agent, Pukekohe. John Sehlaepfer, seur., farmer Pukekohe. Innes Wilcox, farmer, Buckland. .}. H. Webb, farmer, Pukekohe. T. W. Woods, farmer, Pukekohe West. F. A. Hosking, solicitor, Pukekohe. R. Armiger, storekeeper, Rama Rama. G. Ingram, farmer, Rama Rama. W. C. Wood, clergyman, Papakura. Jas. Walker, farmer, Papakura. M. Aldred, land agent, Waiuku. A. M. Barriball, farmer, Waiuku.

Mr Mellsop nominated byMessrs : R. Walters, farmer, Aka Aka. J. O. Crouch, farmer, Otaua. J. W. Robinson, farmer, Runciman. H. Ashworth, farmer, Te Tora. A. Ingram, farmer, Bombay. Mrs M. Page, married, Papakura. OTHER NOMINATIONS. THAMES SEAT. THREE CORNERED CONTEST. i Per Press Association). The following nominations have been received for the Thames electorate : A. M. Samuel, Reform; E. McGregor, United; J. S. Montgomerie, Labour. ROTORUA. F. F. Hockley, Reform: C. H. Clinkard, United Party, S. H. Judd, yCountry Party: A. E. Cristopher, Labour. FOUR FOR MARSDEN. A. H. Curtis, Independent; W. H. Chetham, Labour; W. Jones, Reform; A. J. Murdock, United. HAURAKI. Nominations for Hauraki seat are: — Ebenezer Allan (United) ; Arthur William Hall (Government) ; Charles Robert Petrie (Labour). TAURANGA. Nominations for Tauranga are: — Chas. E. MacMillan (Reform), sitting member; Frank Colbeck (Country Party) ; Douglas Chas. Chalmers (Labour.

RAGLAN. Brown, William (Independent) : Martin, William Lee (Labour) ; Seavill, Walter (Reform). PRIME MINISTER COMING. TUAKAU TO-MORROW AFTERNOON. PUKEKOHE THURSDAY EVENING.A fresh interest to the election campaigns in Franklin and Raglan will be imported this week by the coming into the field of the Prime Minister, who will address the Raglan electors at Tuakau to-morrow afternoon, and those of Franklin at Pukekohe on Thursday night.

The Mainstay. Men over forty, according to a Sydney doctor, are the mainstay of the community, but not enough of them are healthy. He advises these important people to imitate the cricketer and the golfer, • and to live intelligently. That is just what an increasing number of men are doing nowadays. Golf, cricket and tennis are being played into the seventies in Christchurch to-day, and moderately strenuous sports are no longer barred to an elderly man who can keep his weight down within reasonable limits. In fact, the man of the forties in this generation looks younger and probably feels younger than his predecessor of the same age in any other generation. It is not sport alone that is responsible for the change. That has much to do with it, but ever since somebody ! coined the phrase "too old at forty" men of that age have begun to take better care of themselves —to live temperately both in the matter of eating and drinking. Sport merely completes the healthy cycle.—Star, Christchurch.