CAMPAIGN SHOTS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 63, 24 October 1928, Page 5

CAMPAIGN SHOTS

ON THE HUSTINGS. I . j TUI ATS AM) I’OLiU'iLSj, i Not a Blind Follower. “I am not a blind follower of the Government. 1 know it is not perfect,” said Miss Ellen Melville, Reform candidate for Roskill, “There is only one perfect party, and that will never be in power.” XX X X Raillery. When the Prime Minister addressed a. large audience at Invercargill, lie. was accorded a most attentive hearing, until he commenced a criticism of Sir Joseph Ward’s borrowing proposal, when he was frequently assailed with interjections. He met the raillery in the spirit in which it i was given. XX X X l Supreme Moments. Mr. J. W. Yaniall, the Labour ■ candidate for Parnell, worked himself i into a great state of enthusiasm at his meeting in St. Mark’s Hall. He talked of supreme moments. “There have been three supreme moments, in my life,” he. said. “The first was when L I became a Civil servant; the second was whjen I \vnr f ordained as a par- , son; and the third when I was admitted a lawyer. The fourth” Mr. Yarnell said 1 , will he, when I am returned as the Labour member for Parnell.” (Sceptical grunts from the rear.) XX X X Offered a Job. ‘■You have a good job,” an inlerjector told Mr. V. A. Potter M.P. for Roskill, when he was endeavouring to justify the appointment of Mr. Sterling, as manager of railways. This prompted a retort from the candidate that he was willing to find his interjector a job in the Manawatu if he would take it. “What about your £8 a week,” side-tracked the man to whom the offer was made. “I am satisfied,” replied Mr, Potter, “and I will keep ray job.” XX X X Still Going Strong. “I deeply regret the statements made by the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. 0. J. Hawken) that Sir I Joseph Ward is not ip good health,” J declared Mr, K. M’Lennan, the United candidate for Wellington Suburbs, at Ngaio on Thursday. “There is a suggestion that Sir Joseph is too old io lend a party. I do not know Mr. Hawken’s age—l d'o not want to know it —but I do know flint a hundred Mr. Hawkens ■would never he able to deliver the policy speech which Sir Joseph Ward! delivered at Auckland on Tuesday night.” xx x x Fewer Men, More Production. Replying at the Tahiatua Town Hall the other night to a question as to there being fewer people on the land now than four or five years ago. Mr. G. Harold Smith (Reform candidate) said he regretted the the drift, but though' there might be of up-to-date machinery might have been responsible in some measure for the drift, hut thought there might be fewer people on the land l it was a remarkable fact that there had nevertheless been greatly increased production, which seemed likely to increase still further. XX X X Money-Changers hi fcb© Tcrnpie. Speaking at Johnson ville, Mr, James Purcliase (Independent .Labour candidate) said that he regarded the Parliament Buildings as the most sacred edifice in the country, because the people sent their determine the economic conditions that govern tire health, happiness and prosperity of the people sent there determine the present conditions of unemployment and l resulting ill-health and unhappiness, it would seem necessary to take a whip and drive the moneychangers out of the temple, so that those who sent the members to Parliament would receive something like equity and justice at the hands of tliose they placed in a position of power and trust. (Applause).