GENERAL ELECTION.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10732, 1 November 1928, Page 5

GENERAL ELECTION.

“A LITTLE TIN GOD.’

HOW MR HOLLAND I& HELD BY DISAFFECTED SAMOANS. PREMIER’S WARNING TO ELECTORS. (Special to tho Times.) TE AIIOHA, Oct. 31.

■Some attention was. devoted by the Prime Minister .in his address at Tuakau to the Labor .Party’s' attitude with regard to Samoa. He said the Leader of that party, Mr Holland, had stated that Mr Nelson had not had fair trial. “L would like to know of any one who has not had a more fair trial than Mr Nelson,” the Prime Minister said. “The Royal Commission, comprising the Chief Justice and a Judge of the Native Land Court, said it would be better for S&1110& it lie were out of it. Their finding was upheld by the Mandates Commission, -The Privy Council also said! Mr Nelson had no case, and yet we find 1 Mr Holland upholding him. As a matter of fact, Air Holland has been identified with almost every revolutionary movement in his. time. He has associated himself with the disaffected in Samoa, and really no is a little tin god amongst them. The prime Minister said that the electors who were called on to consider the candidature of Labor caiiu.idates should also take into consiueiat'cii thej associations and activities of the acknowledged leader ot that party.

OPPOSITION LEADER AT AUCKLAND. (Press Association.!

AUCKLAND, -Oct. 3i

Mr Holland, Leader of the Opposition. addressed a crowd of three thousand in the Town Hall to-night. Several thousand people who were unable to, gain admittance, .listened, to the speech reproduced ■through loud speakers outside the hail. Air Holland spoke for two hours dealing with the Labor Party’s platform and criticising the policies ol tiie other parties. . • . There' was not .one hostile interjection. . , At the conclusion a vote of thanks to the candidate and confidence in the Labor party was carried with three dissentient voices, and cheeis lor Air”’ Holland followed.

MASTERTON SEAT cprees Association.) MASTERTON, Oct. 31. Air B. Roberts. Labor candidate for Alastertbn, addressed the electors in the Alunicipal Hall to-night. Although the weather was wet there was a largo attendance and Mr Roberts had a friendly hearing. The Mayor, Mr T* Jordan, presided, and a supporting address was delivered by Mr H. B. Combs of Wellington Air Roberts said what was wanted in the House was a great and a stronger Opposition. A vote ot thanks was carried without dissent.

Mr Coleman declared lie was emphatically opposed to legislation by Order-in-Council, a . practice which was growing alarmingly. If returned, he would do his best to curtail National Council of Women presented a budget of questions, which the .candidate answered. He announced he favored women police and women jurors, the appointment of women on the Prisons Board tc> deal with female offenders and the appointment of a woman on the Doaici of Filin Censors. Concerning sexual offenders he said that some measurse beyond imprisonment was ’required but whether the solution would be farm colonies he was unable to say. The candidate added that hq liaci received dozens of written questions on all sorts of subjects, which, if he answered, he would go Yfito ™ e House bound hand and foot and, therefore', he did not propose to answer any written question. On the motion of Mr. C. E. Bickford, seconded by Mr J. Hall, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded the speaker by acclamation. MR) LYSNAR AT WAINGAKE UNANIMOUS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE Air W. D. Lysnar, the sitting member for Gisborne, visited Wainmake last evening and addressed.a gathering of between 30 and 40 m the 'schoolhouse. Mr J. Parker presided- , r ,.. Speaking on the lines or Jus AUty Hail address, Mr Lysnar strongly, defended the Reform administration and dealt at length with topics or concern to the Dominion and the district. .. .'— , , ~ Among the questions , asked tnc candidate was" one as to whether he would press the claims of the Man-gapoike-Te. Arai Valley road ;to be declared "a main highway. Air Lysnar expressed himself as entirely in agreement with the suggestion and stated that ho would do all in his power to have this effected. .Qri the motion of Mr Parker, seconded by Mr F. Shanks, a vote of thanks and confidence in Air Lysnar was carried unanimously and by ac- . clamatioii. • .■, ( .. .. /