AUCKLAND EAST SEAT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17327, 26 November 1919, Page 10

AUCKLAND EAST SEAT.

GOVERNMENT CANDIDATE. INTERESTS OF DOMINION. SAFETY WITH REFORM PARTY. The Government candidate for Auckland. East, Mr. Clutha Mackenzie, addressed a crowded meeting of electors last evening at the Broadway Theatre, Newmarket. Mr. G. A. Buttle presided. The candidate "received a good hearing, except lor some heckling by a few supporters of Labour in the back of .the hall. The candidate said the receding flood of war had left in this country, as in others, a noisome, stagnant —revolutionary Bolshevism. The pre-war political parties in the Dominion should have been combined to face the enemy. They were combined until recently. But they were no longer combined, because of the personal ambition and love of power of one man. Extreme Labour was the enemy. The Liberal Party was in league with the enemy, and only in the Reform Party was there & permanent guarantee of sound and safe government, which would consider the interests of all.- (Applause.) Discussing the question of immigration, Mr. Mackenzie said no aliens should be admitted to New Zealand in future. Ii the aliens here showed signs of not being law-abiding, they must be deported. Policy of Development. Mr. Mackenzie advocated rapid settlement cf the land, and the use of science in agriculture. The staff of the New Zealand office in London badly needed overhauling, he said. At present it consisted of Londoners, who were "fairly mouldy. They drew salaries based on the London standard, and not high enough to attract New Zealanders. He would like to see New Zealand civil servants on the staff for terms of three to five years. He advocated a mora vigorous roads and rail ways policy. Dealing with hydro-electric power, Mr. Mackenzie said its development and application would enable the country, for one thing, to be more independent of coalminerte. Coal-mining communities bred Bedition and trouble, he said, and the more independent the Dominion became of their whims the more easily would it get along. (Applause.) He would like Lo gee the hydro-electric power brought to Auckland and applied to transit services. He advocated a tube rai'way, electrically run, with line's radiating from Queen Street to the suburbs. Kef erring to the cost of living, the candidate asserted that it had increased more in Queensland under the Labour Government than it had in New Zealand. In reply to interjections, he said the increase in Queensland, as compared with pre-war prices, was 63 per cent., and in New Zealand 43 per cent. The one thing that was cheaper in Queensland than in the Dominion was meat, but that was purely by the artificial working of the meat market, and was not going to achieve any definite result. Candidate Replies to Questions. In reply to a question he said that he had nothing to do with the P.P.A. Asked if he did not think it better for a candidate to stand for his own constituency rather than seek the support of strangers, Mr. Mackenzie said he had lived in many parts of New Zealand. Like many another young man in Otago, he had seen the glorious future of the North. (Laughter and applause.) He had been here for some time, and right through the war Auckland had been his base and his post office addres3. Another person asked Mr. Mackenzie whether he did not consider that the Seddon Government, which the questioner described as a " Labour" Government, was the best New Zealand had ever had. In reply, he said he considered- the Seddon Government was probably the best New Zealand had ever had, but the labour of Mr. Seddon's time had fallen greatly in standard owing to malicious propaganda from abroad. If the Labour of to-day bad been the Labour of Mr. Seddon's day, he would have been standing there as a Labour candidate. (Applause,) In reply to a remark by the mover of the resolution of confidence, the candidate repeated his statement to the effect that Mr. Massey did not look for his support except on a no-confidence motion. He had already been accused of departing from Mr. Massey's platform too much, but he expected he would depart from it still further. A vote of thanks and confidence was accorded to . the candidate practically unanimously. MB. WAY'S PLATPOBM. THE WOMEN LN RUSSLA.. Mr. R. F. Way, the official Labour candidate for Auckland East, states that the reference in yesterday's issue to his remarks at his Parnell meeting regarding the treatment of women in Russia, have been misinterpreted in certain quarters. In alluding in his speech to the question of eugenics." he said that Whatever the condition of Russia might be, it was a strange fact that the Soviet Government had provided that for four months prior to the birth of a child and for four months afterwards the mother should be relieved of the necessity to work, and be allowed full wages .by the State, and provided with the best nursing and medical Care. That was a condition of things, he said, that we had not attained to here, and we might in this respect take even a lesson from the Bolsheviks. Mr. Way explained yesterday that these remarks and comparisons referred only to the eugenics problem, and had no relation whatever to the alleged scheme for the nationalisation of Russian women. MR. J. S. DICKSON'S ADDRESS. REFORM PARTY AND WORKERS. An address was given by Mr. J. S. Dickson, M.P., Government candidate for Parnell, at St. George's Hall,' Epsom, last evening. Mr. J. B. Paterson presided, and about 250 people were present., The meeting was very quiet, except for some interjections by a small section at the back of the hall toward the close, and the candidate was listened to attentively. Mr. Dickson dealt with the various legislation introduced by Mr. Massey last session, and said no previous Government had done so much in the interests of the workers. He made reference to the refusal of the Mayor of Te Kuiti to preside at an address by a Labour candidate, and said there could be no getting away from the fact that the primary question to be asked cf the extreme Labour section was "What had they done to win the war'" (Applause.) A Voice : They helped to fight the epidemic. The Candidate : But they were not the only ones. Mr. Dickson -added that he felt quite confident the electors would Tealise it was absolutely necessary to get a strong Government, and the Reform Party, with Mr. Massey at the head, was the only one that could form such a Government. (Applause.) very few questions were asked. A vote of thanks and confidence, moved by Mr. J. C. Mayo and seconded by Mr. J. G. Mackenzie, was carried with acclamation. An amendment of no confidence was defeated by an overwhelming majority. MRS. BAUME AT REMUERA. Mrs. F. E. Baunie, Opposition candidate for Parnell, addressed an audience of about 300 people in St. Mark's Hall, Remuera, last evening. Mr. C. Leek, Mayor of Newmarket, presided. The candidate explained the various planks of her platform, making special reference to the solution of social and educational problems, enlarging on the phases touched upon at her first" meeting. Mrs. Baume said she would support the Opposition Party, but would not enter the lobby with the extreme Labour Party. A vote of thank& and confidence '•was I