THE PARNELL CONTEST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18244, 10 November 1922, Page 6

THE PARNELL CONTEST.

I, through the mediumVo{ ;) your columns, ask for advice on a qaes, \[ tion which I know'is agitating'the minds of a number of Eeform electors in Par* nell electorate? In a recent ..pronounce. . ment which appeared in your columnr tho Prime Minister stated that \ nised Reform candidate for Parnell is Mr... j Dickson, and Mr. Massey goes thafc he hopes' there will be no splitting of the Eeform vote. On the-other, hand, I see that tho. other Refoian. candidate for Parnell, Mr. Wren, says that hi no circumstances will he abandon the contest. There are a number of people arc desirous of seeing ah infusion of 'ifcs : . ) and younger blood into the House,', aria." for this reason are-tempted to vow Jim the younger candidate. While adnu'riflg; the-r-whafc shallwe call it?—of Mf.Wreii in standing, and however much one mat" sympathise with him, it is rather hard.■■?-■' to vote for a candidate who does not ipv .' peap to have the confidence or the.anpi. port" of the leader of his. party. . Itfisy rather hard to know what to do, and also to reconcile Mr. Wren's attitude,' inview. of the Prime Minister's, remarks ; : about Mr. Dicksoni Mr. Wren's speeches; at his fiirst two meetings have struck .vcij % ; well, and,- from the obvious abyity dis-■ played, is not Mr. ' Massey's "nodes'* good as a-wink to a blind horse, *, ;Mp must we look further afield for reason*!*;''' As Vanity Fair would say, "Whatshould A. do?" ' Peeplexed. Parnell, November 8, 1922.