THE FIGHT’S ON

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 13, 6 April 1927, Page 1

THE FIGHT’S ON

Auckland Mayoralty

MR. WARNOCK GOES TO POLL

A Municipal Foursome

A definite stage in the mayoralty campaign was reached to-day when a reporter of THE SUN learned that Mr. J. A. Warnock is resolved to go to the poll and that the Citzen's Progressive Election Commttiee had reie' 1 ' 0 ' 1 -nr —"sals made by unnamed businessmen who asked him to retire.

The move was made on the grounds that if Mr. George Baildon, present mayor, and Mr. J. A. Warnock, present deputy-mayor, went to the poll, there was a prospect of the seat being presented to the Labour candidate, Mr. T. Bloodworth. The representations made were submitted to the Citizen’s Progressive Election Committee, who previously decided to nominate Mr. Warnock for the mayoralty for the ensuing term. The committee has decided that it cannot agree to Mr. Warnock retiring, and he will now definitely go to the poll. It is expected that Mr. Warnock will open his campaign with a public address before the end of the week. Auckland has often had the name of the Citizens’ Progressive Election Com mittee before it, and THE SUN now publishes, for the first time, the present personnel of the committee. The members are: Messrs R. Burns (chairman), J. Robertson, J. A. C. Allum, M. J. Bennett, B. Buttle, J. M. Caughey, H. Caughey, A. McCosh Clark, W. Coltman, A. J. Cooke, J. C. Entrican, J. F. Ewen, C. M. Fenwick, J. Findlay, G. M. Fowlds, A. W. Gillies, H. Goldie, J. B. Grove, F. A. Hellaby, A. J. Hutchinson, F. J. Hutchinson, E. W. Inder, F. W. Jones, E. E. Kitchener, G. F. Lane, A. E. Lawry, A. C. Quin, F. li. Macky, A. A. Martin, J. S. Milne, W. McArthur, E. E. Nalder, C. Norgrove, A. W. Parker, W. Parkinson, W. A. Phillips, J. R. Rendell, C. Rhodes, A. B. Robertson, F. C. Rose, B. J. Stevens, M. Stewart, M. P. Stewart, H. G. Thomas, P. H. Upton, G. Winstone Jnr., P. Winstone, S. E. Wright, and F. M. Stuart, secretary.

MR. BLOODWORTH REPLIES

NATIVE ASSOCIATION FULL PUBLICITY THREAT Strong exception was taken by the New Zealand Natives’ Association to

Mr. Bloodworth’s attitude in regard to the question of unemployment in Auckland when a deputation from the association waited on the City Council recently. The object of the deputation was to secure permission to hold a street collection to assist the deserving cases among the unemployed. Mr. j Bloodworth strongly opposed this on the grounds that the proposed collection was for charity. Follow’ing this the association sent a letter to Mr. Bloodworth disapproving of his attitude and stating that his remarks savoured more of political reasoning than the desire to alleviate the suffering of his fellow-men. They also threatened “to give this letter and attendant details full publicity.” “They need not worry about giving the letter and attendant details full publicity—l will see to that,” said Mr. Bloodworth to a SUN man to-day. His reply to the Natives’ Association is as follows: “I received your letter of March 2S stating that your association disapproved of my action in supporting the resolution moved by His Worship the Mayor declining your association’s reefuest to be allowed to take up a street collection on behalf of the unemployed. The reason for my action was given in my reply to a question put to me at my meeting in the Town Hall on March 28, namely, that any amount you could reasonably expect to collect by that means would not be of much real use to the unemployed, but on the other hand the existence of such a fund would, I am afraid, be used by the Government as an excuse for not doing anything of a practical nature to relieve the existing unemployment or to prevent its recurrence. “My work for the employed, as also for the unemployed, of this city, and throughout the Dominion is well known. I have been one of the unemployed myself on . several occasions, and have not forgotten, nor am I ever likely to forget, the agony of mind which a man suffers who is unemployed through no fault of his own:”— T. Bloodworth. Jt