POLITICAL POINTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 November 1928, Page 10

POLITICAL POINTS

WHAT CANDIDATES SAY. CAMPAIGN NOTES AND JOTTINGS Mr Sidey’s Successor? “I have worked for daylight saving for eighteen years and ! am willing t ( , take up Tom 'Sidev’s work in the House and work for permanent daylight saving till we see it through,” said Mr Ti M. Wilford at Petoi.e. Wliat Labour’s Policy Means. In the course of his remarks at Befhampore, Mr M. F. Luekie, Befoun candidate for Wellington South referred to the objective of the Labour Party as published in its constitution I is the Socialism of the means of production. distribution and exchange, and slated that none of the Socialist candidates in the course of the present, campaign had attempted to explain or to justify it. , On being asked by a member ot the audience as to how ho (the candidate; j would define it, Mr Luekie promptly replied: “Destruction of private entei-i liise.” | Net With Mr Holland. i How would you vote in event of a norconficLpn.ee motion,. ,Mr - , was a question asked, of' Mr I. AL. Wilford, United Party eanddiatc tor llutt, at Petone. “iWell. I’d never vote with Mr lioJland, for I’d never vote to put him into power,” was the reply. ‘‘Covered With Barnacles.” At a political meeting at Nonnanby Mir Wilkinson said that the Reform Partv had been in power for 10 voais. “It is like a ship that has been in the water too long. It gets covered wn n barnacles. The present Government should be put out and tne toarnac.es sciaped off them. We should have a i-ong and vigorous Government and a st ion o' opposition. These we have nor got,concluded the speaker. Short Head Good Enough. “No,” said Mr P. Lysnar. Reform candidate- for Auckland City Central. “I am not in favour of the bare majority in license polls. Why should 501 people rule 500.” ‘‘Mr 'Lvsnar, ’ ’ shouted somebody, “would you take your seat it you go! a one majority in. this light?” “Rather,” answered tne candidate. “A short head is good onougi for me.” Then He Woke Up. Mr A. J. Stallworthy, United candidate for Kdon: “I was speaking to a friend this morning-. who said, ‘I had a verv vivid dream last night. Sir Joseph Ward had swept the elections. Only two members of the ’Reform Party were returned —the Prime Alinistor and the Hon. K. S. Williams. I was talking to Mr 'Coates and ...” A voice: And then he woke up.

Cause for Unemployment. As long as companies were taxed to the extent of 4s Gd in the £ there there would be little escape from the burden of unemployment; declared Sir John Luke , the Reform candidate for Wellington North. High taxation was. a stranglehold on industry, and until its bonds ('were severed there could be little relief, from the present unsarisfact'ory conditions. Increased production from rural activities would not alone save the situation. “Imitation the Sine ere st Form of Flattery. ” Referring to the United Party’s, polity, Air N. J. Lewis, Reform candidate for' Wanganui, pointed out to the electors at his Gonville meeting, that seventeen of the twentv-tliree headings in the manifesto were picked practically word for word from the Reform platform. “Surely imitation is the sinceres t form of flattery,” up said but. judging the party from the utterances of Its candidates, lie doubted if the Reform Party would feel specially complimented. His Ambition. ' “I ,want to see every man own his homo. You can't expect a man to shoulder a rifle to defend a boarding-! house. ’ ’—Mr T. M. Wilford. United Party candidate for llutt. speaking at Lower llutt. We Fight With Spuds. At Manaia last night, dealing. with the,, duty and embargo on Australian potatoes, Mr Wilkinson ‘said 'that, at the present time “We don’t flight with guns, we fight with spuds.” Points From Mr Hawken’s Speech. When Air llawkcn, at Kaponga, on Thursday night was recalling criticism by Sir Joseph Ward and Air A. Veitch in the House concerning borrowing, an elector said he was there in -me House “and saw you asle. p in your sent. ’ “I am never asleep when the country people’s interests are concerned,” promptly rejoined the Minister, and he added with a sinile: “If you had to work like Ministers do, you would ; appreciate perhaps the value of a ‘snooze’ sometimes.

“The suggestion by Sii Joseph Ward •recently in the south real •.here wore going to be between 30 and 40 thousand "people out of employ i,cat seem-. t< indicate that the h-adei of the United Party is hopelessly out of touch with affairs in New Zealand.’ Hon. O. J. Hawlcen at Ka.ponga. Referring to the wonderful returns from small areas, Air Hawlcen, at Kaponga, quoted a ease of a man near Alatapu who off 14A acres had cleared £325 f or the year. He said it proved that there was still room for nrore small farmers in Taranaki. “There are over a million acres round the Taupe .djisitrict which is mostly bush-sick land, tout eminently suited for tree growing. The Forestry Department was filling it up very fast and did 33,000 acres last year,” said Mr llawkcn in his Kaponga speech. One of the consistent interjoctors at Mr Hawken’s Kaponga meeting caused a laugh when he said to the Minister, who got up tu reply before the question was finished: “I’ve got the floor now,