LABOR & RELEIGION

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10733, 2 November 1928, Page 8

LABOR & RELEIGION

M AS MR. HOLLAND ONCE A S.A. OFFICER?

(Special To The Times). AUCKLAND. Oct. 30

Was the leader of fffe Labor party once a Salvation Army officer? A member of his party says he was. Sper.kinir at Remuera last evening Mr. J. AY. Ynrnall, Labor candidate for Parnell, said that, although lie could not vouch, for it. he had always understood Mr. Hoi land was ar one tune an officer of the Army. Air. J. W. Jordan, of Mnnukau, was a Methodist preacher and Air. Lee Martin (Raglan), another Labor candidate, was also a man of strong religious convictions. “That is the answer to the question: ‘What has the Labor party got to do with religion?’”' said Air. Yarnall. “T v say the party is definitely a, religious body and there are ns large a number of men in tho movement in New Zealand who are religious as there are at Home.” “If I am elected to Parliament at this election, you will have an oxparson as well,” lie added amid laughter.

“The ill-usage of freak animals, horses, monkeys, dogs, and other beasts and birds that are transported from, one side-show to another for exhibition and performance at shows .and carnivals has received the attention of our inspector, and in consequence the poor attraction they have received from tho public has practically closed down that class of socalled entertainment,” says the annual report of tho Wellington Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

“Why didn’t you dismantle vonr sol ?” was a question asked by Air. E. D. Mosley, K.M., of a man who was charged in the Christchurch Court with being in possession of an unlicensed wireless set - . Defendant : It’s a four-valve set, and I wanted it for demonstration purposes, as I wanted to sell the outfit. The magistrate: You’ve had the use of the set. You listened in while tho Southern Cross was coming over, didn't you? Defendant: A'es. “I rton’t blame you for that. Toil shillings and costs.”

A seat on the Now York Stock Exchange has been sold for £IOO,OOO. Tlie price is a record. Twelve months ago the record price was £47,000.