ELECTION ASIDES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 20, 14 April 1927, Page 1

ELECTION ASIDES

LAST EVENING’S SPEECHES

"We don’t want chlorinated water in such a young country us this. Even if it costs £5,000,000 it is not too much to spend to obtain pure water” —Mr. H. Schmidt in advocating that Auckland’s water supply be obtained from Lake Taupo.

Taking Remuera electors ii.i confidence. Mr. Baildon said: .», quietly, some people want you to »'.» things and when you don’t do them you are not wanted.”

*T quite agree with the man who wrote to the papers stating that water was God-given and should be free to all,” stated Mr. Warnock. “He can have as much of it as he wants for nothing out on the hills, but if we bring it into town for him he has to pay for it.” * • •

Mr. IT. Schmidt s idea of relieving the unemployed problem in Auckland is to build a bridge over the harbour, which, he says, would enhance the value of the city by £2.000.000. or to put the Taupo water supply scheme in hand.

Mr. Warnock: Co-operation between the various local bodies in the district is desirable and it should be the aim of the Mayor of Auckland city to bring that about.

“Public life has made me pretty thick in the skin but some of the things said about me I cannot help feeling. Yet I can hold my 28 years of public life up to the limelight.”—Mr. Baildon.

“You know many had to he turned away from my other meetings. I did not expect so many people in Parnell as in other centres. Here they do not display so much interest in politics."— Mr. H. Schmidt apologising for the sparseness of his “house” last evening.

Mr. Baildon: “We have completed the library at Remuera and opened it. You are satisfied aren’t you?” (Applause.)

“It has been called a ‘do nothing council,’ but I cannot altogether agree with that. A great deal of work has been done and done well. For what has been done I want to take credit with the rest cf the council, and also share in any of the blame that Is going, but I certainly do not intend to take any blame in connection with the mayor’s policy.”—Mr. Warnock. * • •

Mr. H. Schmidt is all for penny fares on the trams. “The tram cars should be popularised,” he said last evening at Parnell, “and if I am successful the penny fare will come in again. I feel that it will be the same as the return to the penny stamp—the revenue will be so large that it will more than pay for the change over.”

“Raising the fares meant the difference between making the trams pay and not doing so. We knew from the manager’s statement that we would need to make the trams pay. The fourpence you pay took the Onehunga man right out there and the city ratepayer was paying for the man outside.* —Mr. Baildon at Remuera.

Except for an occasional burst of light applause, there was almost an air of sanctity about Mr. and Mrs. Harold Schmidt’s meeting at the Parnell Library last evening. People came in ones and twos, mostly ones, and sat quite quietly. Hardly a whisper disturbed the room. “Any questions?* twice asked the chairman at the conclusion of the address and recitations. None was forthcoming, so Mr. Ernest Hall moved a vote of confidence, which was carried, and the followers of the independent candidate faded out inte the night.

Street lighting has been vigorously proceeded with. Auckland will soon be the best-lit city in the Dominion.”—* Mr. Baildon.

“Mr. Bloodworth should know that a deputy-mayor is appointed merely to act in the mayor’s absence from the city. Otherwise he is the same as any other councillor and not necessarily a confidante of the mayor.* —Mr. Warnock.

“I haven't got any party or clique behind me ... If I had come out as a party man thousands of pounds would have been spent on me. As an Independent there is not much in the papers about me. The papers will only advertise those who spend money with them. Taken all in all our papers arc only financial concerns and the candidate with the money gets the preference.”— Mr. H. Schmidt at Parnell Library last evening.

“I can say definitely that not one penny has been paid in the way o t compensation for the unexpired part of any lease on the civic square. Compensation might have been paid for buildings but not for land.”—Mr. Warnock.

“I’m a great believer in sport, hut I believe in modern sport.” said Mr. 11. Schmidt at Parnell last evening. “Our young men should be encouraged to go in for civic aviation.”—At least the undertakers will agree with him.