THE BAY OF PLENTY SEAT.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10736, 6 November 1928, Page 6

THE BAY OF PLENTY SEAT.

(To the Editor.) ?sir. —Because Mr Winston Churchill spent a few hours laving bricks in England the news has been cabled to the Dominions. - In this electorate the wearing of a pair of dungarees is trotted but by a “Digger” as. proof of greatness, and a reason for returning a candidate to the House of -Representatives. ~ “That man will do us and we don’t,care what his po litic-s are,” declares “Digger. Whilst he seeks to make the contest a purely personal one we find that “K.S. on the other hand, emphasises the point, and. rightly so, that the issue is “a matter of different policies in conflict, and that is lioW it should always he in politic.” Sir, “Digger’s” appeal to sentiment, rathem than to reason, entitles, one to conclude that he had no case. One would think he has a mandate from aIJ the returned soldiers on the Coast., to speak on their behalf. I have no such authority from the “boys,” > so j write on my own , account only. However, in these- days hoys arc men, and men. think harder ■ now than they did ten years ago, for tho majority "of them are not within cooee 'of divine conditions that could bo called “comfortable,” in spite of the fact that our 66,000,000 acres Lave only to provide dor one knd a hall million people, into certain pockets, our national income flows in rivers of o-old: into others it trickles sparinsfy like the dew. Many , suffer ■from a‘‘complete drought, the ©tv fleet of a People’s Government should be to promote an adjustment on lines of' a more'even distribution. The introduction of the flag, the Anthem, -ancl even dungarees into the contest serves the purpose of'deflecting 'the people's interest from the real issued Wise folk prefer to analyse a member’s attitude towards the many serious issues brought before Parliament, and to closely watch lus voting thereon. Therefore, feir, _ 1 have no difficulty in ,deciding that, on polling day, if ilecessary,, I will travel the/ length and breadth of the Bay of Plenty in search of a polling booth where I can vote, not for “iv.S.”, but for “A.Ed’, otherwise Mr Moncur, the Labor candidate. I am > ol,r ®’ < /N C OTHini-- ( piG'GE - 1i, ,?