IN THE MEANTIME

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 9 May 1931, Page 4

IN THE MEANTIME

What is the Government going to do .about the Hn.urn.ki vacancy? If there had been an acceptance of fuson by Mr (notes, the vacant ‘•eat would have been contested by a Reform candidate who would have had the support of the Hinted Party a s again q the Labour candidate* and the nominee of the Country "Party. At present t i.s to i».: a triangular duel, with the three candidates already well cm in the r campaign. The Foiled Party held its hand [lending the reply of Mr Coates to the offer of Premier Forbes. h there is to bo a Foiled earn!-date now, lie will have a rush time of it, for nominations close next Wednesday and the polling take s place a fortnight later, thus leaving only two and a half weeks for the selected man to cover a wide* spreading electorate. Mr J. Petrie, the Labour candidate, who i s being well supported by the party’s prominent leaders, is basing his attacks on the. Government mainly' on the economic policy, emphas’sing what Labour calls tile injustice of the C vil Serviee cuts. This is not likely to appeal to a farming community, for the men on the land reckon the public servants ni\* a. privileged class, the luckiest and the best off employees in the Dominbn. The farmer litre the man in the street, has already had severe' soli inflicted cuts.