HAURAKI BY-ELECTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20867, 8 May 1931, Page 14

HAURAKI BY-ELECTION.

Sir, —When the Hauraki vicancy first occurred, I wrote suggesting that this vacancy should ho filled by the Reform nominee, the other parties' allowing it to go to Reform by default to save unneces-. N eary expense to the country in this tirmv of stress. The electorate belonged to Reform and the other parties should have held back until the gonernl election next December. This they have failed to do, Labour and the Country Party ore already in the field and rumour sayg a fourth candidate will shortly be announced. Three out of the four will be calling for the farmers' vote, and it will fee quite ajp easy thing to split that vote, 60 much that the Labour candidate will slip in. It behoves the electors to be careful what they are doing, and if they will just weigh one matter carefully, i.e., who is responsible for the unneceesary expense of the election, then I am confident that the great majority will come to the same conclusion that I have done, that Mr. W. W. Massey is the man to vote for. He' has come forward to take the place made vacant by the regrettable decease in harness of the late Mr. A. Hall and wo know thaf Mr. Massey will be a worthv succeseor. Nuff sed. C. H. MEttsop. ' ' Clevedon, May 6, 1931.