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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14855, 5 December 1911, Page 4

: ' Electoral. !POL O • G Y "To the members of the Bootmakers t Union,• "I sintwrejy regret I arrived too late ai • Howie's 1 toll last night to have the plea sure of addressing the member.? of youi union. Mi*. Watts, a member of the Union permits me to use his name as vouching the fact, that my Columba Hall meetinj , was prolongs xi on account of the weather and in appointing scrutineers for the com ' ing poll, so t.\iat it was 10 o clock when arrived at no vae's. However, perhaps yoi gentlemen wilt he {food enough to occupj special scats on the stage at my rn a'\ at the Tivoli ltoea-tre. on WEDNESDAY NEXT, at 8 p.m. May I have the pleasure of your introduction to me by your Mr Avery, and allow me to personal apolo , pise for my unavoivtab.'y disappointing yoi last night? s faithfully. JOHN PAYNE. The People's Popular Labour Candidate for Grey Lynn." , rpo THE ELECTORS OF AUCKLAND -*• EAST. Ladies and Gentlemen,— ! My worthy opponent, Mr. ArthV Withy has issued a manifesto, which I t\'ust yov have all read, in which, in reply to mj 1 challenge to anyone to prove that I have ever allowed my private interests to override my public responsibilities, he asks me , three questions, as follows:— (1) Why did I, as Mayor, oppose the proposal that the Auckland City Council should placard Auckland, as the Borough Council of Woolwich placarded Woolwich, with a big poster calling the attention of the people to the dangers of alcoholism as exposed by a Committee of the British House of Commons? ! (2) What was my position in regard to handing the Auckland Electric Tramways undertaking over to a Private Monopolist i Company, when it ought to he owned and controlled by the Municipality, in the in- ' terests of the people as a whole? (3) Why do I support the iniquitous threefifths majority handicap against No-License , and National Prohibition? In reply to (1), I would ask Mr. Withy (a) Why did the promoters of this proposal never bring it forward until a brewer was Mayor, so" that it could be utilised as :» means of personally insulting him? fb> Why did the City Council, which numbered several Prohibitionists among its members, refuse by a unanimous vote to entertain the proposal? (c) Why has the present City Council, with which I have no connection, also refused a similar application? To ask tho Council to erect such a poster is to asl; them to enter on controversies which are quite out of their sphere. As to (2), my position in the matter was that of a private citizen—the transaction referred to took place long before I was Mayor. This in itself disposes of the question as an answer to my challenge; but 1 have nothing to conceal. The question at that time was not between municipal and privately owned trams, but between privately owned tranis and no trams at all. However wise people may be now, after the ovent, the state of opinion then, both in the Council and among the ratepayers, was such | 'hat thero was no hope of securing a munii cipal tram service; and 1, therefore, consider that in helping to provide an electric tram system on the only lines that were then feasible. I was rendering a service to the community. Mr. Withy's long absence from Auckland is some excuse for his ignorance on this point, but before he publishes glanderous insinuations of this kind he , ought to take the trouble to find out whether they are justified. In reply to (3), I support the three-fifths majority because I am convinced that it is in the best interests of the public, that before making such a drastic change in the habits and customs of the people, it should ibe supported by a substantial public opinion, a conviction which I may point out is shared, among others (unless he has i changed bis mind within the last few - years), by Sir T. P. Whittaker. the leader ■ of tho Temperance Party in England— > cept that what he advocated was not three fifths bnt two-thirds. I Mr. Withy says he has not a word to say against me personally but if his questions, with the inainuations they imply, and the whole tone of his attacks upon me, are not personal, then there is no meaning in ' \rords. If Mr. Withy thinks that in saying that if I am elected I shall be sure to abase the confidence of my constituents, and sacrifice their interests for my own private gain, ho is not attacking my personal honour, then his standard of political honour must be a deplorably low one. ' If Mr.* Withy or any of his supporters can prove that on any occasion, during my four > years' Mayoralty or since I have been a member of Parliament, I have failed to . place the public interests first, irrespective . of my own, I will withdraw from the con- [ test without the slightest hesitation. ! I have the. honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, ' Faithfully yours, [ , f ' ARTHUR M. MYERS. t i ' - [ J] AST JJLECTORATE, i ! — M E - A ETHDE M. M reES Will Address the Electors at 6T. BENEDICT'S HALL. EAST-STREET, Off Symonds-street, . Y O-MORROW (WEDNESDAY) JfJVENXNG, AT 8 O'CLOCK. - , f, Beats reserved for Ladies and their escorts. ! ' — Ladies specially invited, | Ladies specially invited. p A BKELL ELECTORATE r gIR JOHN piNDLAY Will Address the Electors as under:-— TO-NIGHT (Tuesday)— Public Meeting, St. Mark's, Remuera, 8 o'clock. WEDNESDAY, December 6—Public Meeting, i ~, Newmarket, at 8 p.m. QITY QENTRAL. M J. C. .G leesos Will give OPEN-AIR ADDRESSES At the following Places: — /jpO-NIGHT (TUESDAY), At 7.30 p.m., CORNER SALE-STREET AND ADELAIDESTREET. j'JlO-NIGHT (TUESDAY). At 8.15, CORNER HARDING E-STREET AND VICTORIA-STREET. ryyEDNESDA Y VEXING, At 8 o'clock, A GREAT MONSTER MEETING Will be held at the OREY gTATUE. T. WILLIAMS, , Secretary. WARD OR MASSEY—WHICH?— Auckland Electoral Guide on the Election, the Candidates. Licensing Poll, Past Results, etc. Penny, stationers.