AUCKLAND EAST

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7142, 1 June 1910, Page 6

AUCKLAND EAST

It soems, after all, that the fight Sot the Auckland seat is to be between Mr Myers, the Independent .Liberal candidate, and Mr McKnight, who will si and in the interests of Labour. This means that Mr Myers will be returned. Ths Opposition will not be represented. Mj Massey is again discredited as a tactician. In the first place, he professed to regard Mr Myers as a satisfactory candidate from the reactionary point U view, and sneered at the because of Mr Myers's declaration og independence. Mr Myers quickly un. deceived the leader of tho Opposition by a frank declaration that lie had nothing in common with the of Liberalism. > Mr Massey then set about selecting some person who would definitely wear tho " reactionary label. Presently it was announced that the Kev. Joseph Clark, formerly a pastor of tho Baptist Tabernacle, had been asked by Mr Massey and Mr Martin, the "Reforml" party's organiser, to come into the fight. Mr Clark asked for time to consider the x raatter, and it is now announced that ho "cannot see his way." A ..wiser campaigner than Mr Massey would Tiave caught his hare first and prepared tho trimmings afterwards. The reactionaries aro now on the horns of a dilemma. They will have either to abstain from voting, support the .independent Government candidate, or throw their influence into the scales in support of the "red flag brigade." Probably they will ultimately decide to follow „their natural inclination to stand on the touphliuo and hoot 'the referee. : ;: