GENERAL ELECTION.

Grey River Argus, 3 November 1928, Page 6

GENERAL ELECTION.

MR COATES HECKLED. Lively Time at Te Awamutu. TE AWAMUTU, November J. Mr Coates addressed, a crowd a audience at To Awamutu to-nighi. He opened by saying a high reputa tion. was enjoyea by New Zcu|.’auu throughout the Empire aud th worm, and his Government was tor thhi largely responsible, aud deserving ni recognition by the people. When he referred. to the Parties in Parliament it immediately gave rise to considerable interjection, which was maintained. The Premier delivered a lighting address, meeting the interjections smilingly and frequently turning them to his Dealing with the nativia land question he cuaimed to have solved wha was admitted a difficult problem in half of the countries. So i'ong as he was Minister of Native Affairs h*. would sej that native rights were equally respected with those of the pakeha. The speaker traversed the policy oF the Governm, nt relating to land settlement. He was subjected to a good deal oi heckling. 'Che Chairman appealed for order, saying the Premi ir s time was limited, but the request was not heeded. A vote of thanks asd confidence was declared carried, amidst an uproar. Mr Coates was chc (red as hi.-. ear left for Cambridge, while counter cheers met with the same response. Mrs Young’s Grouch. AGAINST LABOUR PARTY. ALL OVER HER HUSBAND! WELLINGTON, November Z. Interesting stat<nrnts made to-day by Mrs Margaret Young, wh'o is standas an Independent Labour candidate for Wellington Central, at a meeting of women, when she express.d the opinion that the sooner the present leaders of the Labour Party were out of the country, th. i better it would be. ** I have always been up against the heads'of the Labour Party,” she said: “I saw a chance for Wellington Central, and, I decided to stand.”

She said her husband had starti a th.\ Labour Movement 25 years ago in New Zealand; he had always been loyal to the Party, but had not been fairly treated. “My nomination came as news to him/’ she said, ‘‘and things' are not altogether pleasant be tween us. Perhaps I will convince him in the end that what I am doing is right. The Labour heads (she declared) would bind you hand and foot. Those who say anything they like are called traitors.” She said; she was really working alone. Like all j politicians ,she wtas doing the best sh could for humanity. She had not announced her candidature earlier she would have encountered much opposition. “I am not following Holland Fraser and Semply, she added, “their views are too extreme. They are really Red Feds.’ ’ Mrs Young was asked how she Would vote as an Independent Labour candidate if a question affecting Labour arose in the House. She replied that she would not vote with Mr Holland on anything. She did not intend to be m'ould,eid by hin». IN OTHER ELECTORATES. TAUMARUNUI, November 2. The election campaign in Waimarino is now in full swing, and meetings were addressed by Mr J. Goorgetti and Mr R. W. Smith this week. Mr Georgotti, who is standing as an Independent, dealt mainly with the land question. Mr Smith, who is standing as an Independent Liberal, dealt with various problems affecting the district, particularly timber. Mr Georgetti was accorded a vote of thanks and Mr Smith thanks and confidence. CAMBRIDGE, November 2. Mr Fred Lye, the United candidate, addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting at Cambridge Town Hall last night. He said that the formation of the United Party was the outcome of a general desire for a change of Government. The recent depression was largely the result of the operation of 1 compulsory dairy control, which cost the country a million and a-half. He defended Sir J. Ward’s seventy millions loan, saying the urgent need of the country to-day was cheap money The scheme was workable, though, of course, the banks had opposed it. The candidate was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence almost unanimously. “DEATH” OF THE BOOKMAKER. “Weep for Adonais —he is dead!” cried Shelley in the sheer agony of a poet’s grief. In accents almost as sublime Mr R. B. Speirs, United Party candidate for Auckland West, called his Ponsonby audience the other evening to the graveside of the legislatively-dead bookmaker and wept mock tears. “Would you abolish the bookmaker?” the candidate was asked. The laughter of the audience drew smiles from Mr Speirs too. “It can’t be done,” he said. He added that all his instincts were against gambling, but he thought it far preferable to let people make their investments in an honest, open way rather than to drive gambling below the ground by enactments purporting to “kill” the bookmaker. Ho did not favour licensing the bookmaker, but he favoured allowing totalisator investments to be made by telegram. “So long as the people want gambling facilities we might as well have the revenue,” he said. “We can then give the benefits of the increased tax to the children”—a considerable pause—“well, of poor bookmakers.” THE LAST OF THE LIBERALS. “Sir Joseph Ward has until recently stood out as the sole survivor of the Liberal Party; but, as is now known by all, he has accepted the leadership of the United Party, so the last of the Liberals has gone.” So said Mr R. P. Hudson, Reform candidate for Motueka, last week. GREATEST ON EARTH. “By a process of self-hypnotism they have induced themselves to believe that—like Barnum and Bailey’s circus—they are the greatest show on earth.” —M r J. A. Lee on the United Party at the Hamilton Town Hall on Saturday night.