NEWS JOTTINGS.

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

NEWS JOTTINGS.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their head’ office, dated October 23: “Tlie tallow market is very dull, and there will fie no public sales this week.”

“There is as much chance, of getting Tommy Bums back into the boxing ring to fight Heeney as to get Sir Joseph Ward to beat Mr. Coates.”— Mr. V. A. Potter, Reform candidate lor E-don.

“There is a great deal of difference liotwoen a politician and a statesman, you know,” said Mr. E. R. Allen, Auckland Suburbs, in an address at New Lynn. “A politician is a man working for the next- election, but a statesman is a man working for the next generation.' ’

Outlining the Government’s aehievernenls during the last three years and policy measures for future, tlie Prime Minister, at Auckland said it was intended to make use of the Returned Soldiers Associations for getting into touch with soldiers who were now “washing up.”—-Special.

Summing up the geneial political situation, Mr. J. Coull, chairman of the meeting addressed l»y the. Reform candidate. Air. N. J. Lewis, at- the Wanganui Opera House,, said that in some respects it was a ease of “dog eat dog.” “The Labor dog,” he. added, “is getting fat at tlie expense of the Liberal forces, blit not at the expense of the Reform Party.”

“Discipline in schools has changed, but not for the best,” said Mr. G. F. Allen, an ex-master of the Springstcn School, •Christchurch, when speaking at' the school jubilee celebrations. “Parents are too fond of their children. The war did that. They are too frightened to lot their childreri be properly corrected or run the risk of any adversity at all. Work hard and endure should be their slogan.”

“Who drafted the Highway legislation, and had it put through Parliament'/’ tho Prime Alinister asked at Auckland when flenimjj with the Government’s achievements. “Harry Holland,” called an excited Labour man. “Harry. Holland is right. Why lie didn’t wake up until it was all through,” the Prime Minister retorted amidst laughter:—Special.

Ordered to leave tho United States by October 25, on the expiration of her permit, Tni Yorraino Bow a New Zealander, tlie stepmother of Clara Bow, the' movie star, is attempting a second legal entry into the States as the wife of an American citizen. The immigration files relating to her case''Have been ordered to be sent to Vancouver, states a United Service cable.

“The main criticism of tho United Party is that we have been borrowing at too great a rate, and .now they—the United Party—propose to borrow at a still greater fate,” said the Hen. (). J. Hawken at Otakeho. “Even during the last session Sir .Joseph Ward criticised us foi our borrowing, and his latest proposal surprises me. I read it as a gnmblei’s last throw of the dice—either it. will bring them success, or oblivion. They had to do something to bring before tbe country the presence of the United Party.”

“I. don’t see how Labor can help voting for Sii; Joseph Ward and his' party, seeing the money he proposes to raise for them to splash with. Air. Holland will never stand for a £70,009.000 lean. . . Read the Holland manifesto and search it for a financial policy, and you won’t find a mention of one. It’s not there'—they haven’t got oik*; but what one notices in the House is that the Labor Partv, whilst always grousing about expenditure, never opposes any proposal to spend money. Peculiar thing that!”—Mr. T. Forsyth, at Hataitai.

The Rev. Father Alartindale is not tlie only experienced traveller who lias been moved to praise the hotels of New Zealand. The latest tributes comes from Mr. .1. D. Simpson, assistant manager to an insurance company which has branches in all parts of rhe world, who is now in Auckland. ‘‘l have read American criticisms of your hotels.” he told an interviewer, “but I can honestly say, with 12 years’ experience of hotels in many countries, that the accommodation provided in New Zealand is excellent. I would just a., soon stay at a good Auckland dr AVeliington hotel as I would at the Savoy m London.”

“Will the candidate sav whether he has has farming experience?” was a question addressed to Colonel T. AY. Ale Donald, United Party candidate for Wairnrapa, at a meeting at Featherston. The candidate replied: “I went on a tarai at the age of 13 at 6s a week, milkqd nine .cows, ploughed, erected fences, killed and dressed mutton, pork and beef; erected stacks, reaped, sowed, and mowed seven years, and learnM the art of soldiering in the spare time I had.” He stated that in felling a tree or .setting a crosscut saw he would hold libs own with any man of his ago in the district.

Regarding tho Labour Party, Air. AlcKny (United candidate for the Hawke’s Bay seat) said that while lie might vote with them in the interests of the country, he would not be prepared to follow ALr Holland. Air AlcKay quoted Mr Holland as saying in 1918, in the House of Representatives, that he did not pose as a pacifist, but he preferred to early the brand of a revolutionary Socialist. He (the speaker) had all sympathy with the man milling against tlie stream—he had done so himself—and he had always stood by the man who was an honest woiker, and ivho had struck evil times.

This is one of the most amazing things 1 have ever seen,” said Air. J. Lee, 1v1.P., referring to a joint United Party advertisement for Sir Joseph Ward and Air. A. J. Stallworthy. United candidate for Eden. “Air Stallworthy,” he added, “is one of the heads of the P.P.A. organisation that has been trying to cripple Sir Joseph Ward for years past.” “The United Party,” said Air. Lee, “re-;, minds me of a fireriym’s black pan. A black pan is the dish oil which is thrown whatever is left over from the saloon table. It is a queer dish— Horn one corner you might get a pork chop and from the other a lump of plum pudding. It is just the same with - the United Party.. From one corner you get Sir Joseph AVard and in the other you will find a P.P.A. candidate, and it is made up by Mr. Davy, the late organiser for the Reform Party.” (Laughter.) •

“I wish to propose the long life and prosperity of the new 'Liberal Party,” said Air. G. S. Thomson, Independent candidate for DunedinNorth. He added that four and not three parties were in the politico! field. His war cry was not His alone, hut that of fifteen or twenty candidates throughout New Zealand, who, desired the return of the Bailanoe-Seddon-Ward-Alackenzie Administration of days gone by. “Back to tho good ola days” was his war cry.— A Voice: “Who is the leader?”—The Candidate: “If necessary, G. S. Thompson is the leader, and the coming Prime Alinister. (Laughter.) So you can see what you have in front of you. If you take the risk, as I believe you will do, of returning me on November 14, three years from now you - will see the Liberal-Laltor Party in power, with G. S. Thomson, if not Prime Alinister, at least a Cabinet Alinister.” (Laughter.)