CAMPAIGN SHOTS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 55, 11 October 1928, Page 7

CAMPAIGN SHOTS

HON,> HAW KEN’S ADDRESS. THE EG MONT. SEAT. As the Reform manifesto has net yet been made public, 1 cannot give details of it hut, I .will say it contains much thit i s progressive and will make a big appeal to the people. x x x Tlie Labour Tarty is a high protection party, though they do not say that when addressing the farmers. xxx The, United Party has become the Conservative Party. They are talking about too much money being borrowed; and spent, but in a young country like this reasonable borrowing and expenditure must be carried out. xxx There is always the clangor that after the election the United Party and the Labour Party might be sufficiently strong to upsjet the'- (onlyparty capable of governing the country viz the Reform Party. It is a remote possibility but still at isj . there. XXX The ,Reform Party is a United) Party and Mr Coates is just as much its leader as Mr Massey w! is which *is saying a great deal, f am sura the party wnl come hack with a working majority and now that the country is in for n.n era of prosperity the people diunofc do better than again give a trial to the party which has had a good record for the last 16 years. xxx Before I entered politics 3. was asked) to stand for Patea but I was too si)uincli a party man to> split Mr Pearce’is vote. When I heard; Air Wilkinson the then Reform member for Egmant was about to retire, I went to him'and asked if it were true. He replied hi the affirmative and said T was quite at liberty to btand. Under the circumstances it is a little stilango to find him out against me now. Of course bo has a perfect right to stand Ho bas broken away from his old- party for some reason nr other and i» now an Independent with leanings towards the so-culled United Party.