Curious Underground Intrigue

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 295, 25 October 1922, Page 4

Curious Underground Intrigue

Mr. Andrews, the Tory, who had kicked over the party traces and vd'f oppose the ex-reverend L. M. Isit£ V\ Christchurch North, explained himseltj to a meeting of friends and supporters the other night, and he made state* ments, which, the £ib.Tory Press al> leges, will embitter the conflict if pub 1 . licly persisted in. Said Mr. Andrews:

• "Intrigue had been going- on, most of it due t.o attempts by the New Zea land Welfare League to confine the contest to Mr. Isitt and Sir. Archer. ~ The Welfare League dM not waut tiw Reform Party executive to nominate a candidate, and at erne time it had threatened to nominate a Liberal cajfr didate for Lytteiton against Mr. Macartney, if the Reform Party put a'catf* didate up against Mr. Isitt tor Chris] church North. was one phase oi the extraordinary bargaining that had been going , on." Thus we perceive tls Welfare League in another light. Of ccnu'se'the League would have no diffl culty about" supporting Mr. Isitt, ff that gchtlenaan is reactionary enougi for anybody, -but the conundrum i|j Why should it thwaten to split the vpie in Lytteltou? Is Isitt-of more finportajdi'ce to the profiteeS tlian ¥bry in Mr. McComls constituency? It appears so. I'liere's a Kilkejiny cat nght proceeding beliini the sceiies among the money-snatcliers and fierce gnashing of teeth and bru-

tal-shoving. -Will Leonard let us liave what lie knows about it?