AUCKLAND EAST SEAT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9222, 26 May 1910, Page 3

AUCKLAND EAST SEAT.

NO OPPOSITION CANDIDATE.

SATISFIED WITH MYERS.

(Per Press association.)

AUCKLAND, May 24.

It has boon decided by the Opposition party not to bring out an official candidate for tho Auckland East seat. This decision has been arrived at in,,.viow of Mr Arthur M. Myers' declaration to tho Opposition organiser (Mr Martin) that he will stand as an absolute independent candidate, bound to no political party. Mr Myers has also undertaken, according to Mr Martin, not to move or second the Address-in-Roply (if asked), nor to attend a Government caucus next session, and to support or oppose tho Government according to whether he approves or disapproves their measures. Mr Myers' capable occupancy of the Mayoral chair in Auckland has also actuated the decision of Opposition supporters in the City East electorate.

MR. MYERS STATES HIS CASE. • AUCKLAND. May 24. In meeting his supporters to-night Mr Arthur M. Myers, who is standing for the City East, briefiy enunciated his political views. He pronounced himself a Liberal, and said he came out as an independent, entirely unfettered to any party. Although the line of demarcation between the present parties in the House was very narrow, there was no doubt the present Government were the representatives of the Liberal party, and ho assured his audience that he would support tho present Administration as long as they advanced Liberal principles. Tho best of Governments went astray at times, however, and in such cases he would act on his own judgment and would vote against the Government where he considered that it introduced measures which were not in the best interests of the city and country. Ho did not want the Opposition to understand that he was going to join their party, because ho was not. He urged justice for Auckland, and declared that if Aucklanders returned men to Parliament who would not endorso everything the Government did. the Government would not treat Auckland with the contempt it had shown. He would endeavour to sccure justice for Mr Knyvett, and would vote against the Government if it would not grant a fresh inquiry into his case and the charges he had made.