GENERAL ELECTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20072, 9 October 1928, Page 13

GENERAL ELECTION.

CAMPAIGN IN AUCKLAND. THREE MEETINGS TO-NIGHT. PARTIES BUSY ORGANISING. Tlio general election campaign in Auckland will commence in earnest this evening, when three candidates will address public meetings. Already a great deal of organisation work has been done by the main parties and many committee meetings are being held nightly. In (Tie Auckland metropolitan area there arc ten electorates, and so far 29 candidates arc announced, or about three for every seat. What promises to be a particularly interesting contest wiK be that for Auckland Suburbs, the old Eden seat. The Reform candidate, Sir James Gunson, will open this evening at Henderson with a speech in wliich ho will outline his platform and deal generally with national problems and the Government's policy in dealing with them. Ono of his opponents, Mr. E. It. Allen, of the United Party, will address electors at Birkenhead Another interesting contest is expected in Roskill, where a new member will havo to bo elected owing to the sitting member. Mr. V. H, Potter, deciding to stand for the new Eden seat. The campaign in Roskill will be opened to-night by Mr. A. S. Richards, tho Labour candidate, who will explain his party's policy. Public meetings announced for to-night are as follows: Sir James Gunson (Auckland Suburbs). -Town llall, Henderson, 8 p.m. Mr. E. R. Allen (Auckland Suburbs). — Foresters' llall, Birkenhead, 8 p.m. W. T. Anderton (Eden). —Dominion Road Methodist Hall, 8 p.m. Mr. A. S. Richards (Roskill). —Edendale Picture Theatre, 7.30 p.m. Meetings of candidates' supporters to•light are as follows: Mr. R. H. Greville (Waitemata). —Picturedrome, Milford, 7.45 p.m. Mr. J. B. Donald (Auckland East). — Parnoll Library Hall, 8 p.m. Mr. A. J. Stallworthy (Eden). —Kingsland Methodist Hall, 8 p.m. Mr, J. S. Fletcher (Grey Lynn).— Kingslaud Methodist Hall, 8 p.m. REFORM INTERESTS IN THAMES. POPULARITY OF MR. SAMUEL. [I!Y TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.,] THAMES, Monday. Ihe popularity of Air. A. M. Samuel was illustrated this evening, when lie was enthusiastically welcomed at a meeting of friends and supporters, who expressed appreciation of tho manner in which he had looked alter the interests of his own (Ohinemun) and the Thames electorates since tho absence of Mr. T. W. Rhodes, M.P., in Canada. At the close of a short address local committees were appointed to further Mr. Samuel's candidature for tho Thames electorate, for which he has been selected as the official Reform candidate. FARMERS' UNION AND LABOUR. STATEMENT BY ORGANISER. [by telegraph.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. 1 TAUMARUNUI, Monday. Reference lo tho attitude of tho Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister of Lands, in regard to the Farmers' Union and politics was made by Mr. W. G. Blacklock, organiser for the Farmers' Union in the Auckland Province, at a meeting of the local branch of the Labour Party to welcome Mr F. Langstone, Labour candidate for Waimarino. Mr. Blacklock, in responding to the toast of Farming Interests, said the Minister of Lands had crossed swords with tho Farmers Union on a good many occasions and not altogether to his advantage. Recently he was reported as having said in the House of Representatives that organisers of the Farmers' Union were advising farmers to vote Labour. "Even if this had been so.'" said Mr Blacklock, "I am not aware that he has been granted tho sole rights of giving advice to farmers on political subjects and how to vote. "The Farmers' Union is decidely political, but at presont non-party, and, knowing as it does, that remedies can only be effected through legislation, it endeavours to consolidate farming opinion along economic lines. It is in tho common need which we have to improve existing conditions, that Mr.. McLeod finds the affinity which exists between your organisation and ours, and which ho seems to think has warranted him in a most unjustifiable attack on those who do not possess the same means of giving publicity to their reply as he did in his attack."