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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12286, 4 November 1925, Page 11

What despicable opponent resorted to this ? When the Prime Minister’s car was being driven north to meet him as he came down through Taranaki from Auckland, it was ascertained in a Wanganui garage that someone had interfered with the radiator. The damage, which was caused by soap, cost £3O. • • • • “I am a believer in thrift. Thrift is the bridge over which the labour passes to become capital. Every man mid woman who has a bnnk account in the Post Office has by thrift saved labour, and all saved labour is capital. That is the way all people lav the foundation of independence.”—Mr A. B. Sievwright at Berhampore. * • • • A member of tbe audience at Auckland Opera House. last evening interjected when Mr Roberts was discussing the Labour Party’s land policy, saving: “ ‘The Herald’ says you will take our rooster and orchard.” ‘‘l wish the ‘Herald’ would get another rooster to writo their leading articles; he might crow with more intelligence,” replied Mr Roberts amidst tumultuous laughter • i» • * Amongst the Maoris, the Labour Party is known as the Labour “Pntiki.” “Patiki” is the native etymological representation for the flounder, and, as Sir Maui Pomare has observed, the suggestion is that tho Labour Party has been on a fishing expedition into the Maori electorates, and that the nrogress it has made resembles that of tiio fish so named.