Politics In Palmerston

NZ Truth, Issue 881, 14 October 1922, Page 1

Politics In Palmerston

•With the candidates lined up the Jscurry for the Manawatu seat looks Jifce a weight-for-age handicap. One, H« T. Flyger* -probably the oldest of the four acceptors, carries top-weight on a frame strengthened m early years m the ironmongery trade and toughened later m strenuous tillage of the s6il !he wishes to represent. One way and another,, he amassed a pile m the Manawatu that now allows him. to/ spend a leisured life m one of Palynerston's Rangitikei Street hotels, Where he finds never-ceasing ■ enjoyment In assuring the guests that what is wanted is uracticaL men. At the other end of the age scale we find Frank Whibley, lean and lank, as might be expected of any man who spent years m the pursuit of news m Foxton, as a reporter for the local paper, for news there has to be stalked for weeks at a stretch with every cunning of the hunter. That he sometimes succeeded m investing h\s paper with local interest indicates that grit, Initiative • and an undying determination may be numbered among his dualities. More ponderously weighted is middle-aged Joe Linklater. As befits a good Reform candidate his bulk is ample, his acres broad, and his wanner at all times jovial. He finds comfortable Accommodation for himself m any /one of his two or three softly upholstered cars. t ßut the scale of weight-for-age has been varied by a kind providence for Shannon's grand old man, W. Murdock. It is well that it should be so., for if he furnished greatly the little man -would be spherical. In any case he has a big head and a very big heart to carry round. „ Latest reports from the paddock indicate that long odds are being quoted about the top- weight.