POINTS FOR REFORM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 11

POINTS FOR REFORM

MRS. MAGUIRE HAS QUIET TIME An attentive hearing was accorded Mrs. Maguire in the Grafton Road Methodist Hall last evening. Any tendency toward lively heckling was checked by the chairman, Mr. H. B. Burton. Women were better financiers than men; this had been proved in the homes, said the candidate in attempting to justify women taking a seat in the House. There was yoom for one hundred times more New Zealand prqduce in England. You could go into dozens of shops in London at the present time and not see New Zealand butter. There are many men who don’t know the joy of work. * We should press for the establishment of farm colonies, where unskilled men would be made to work. There are 6,04»0 backward children in New Zealand to-day who, if they were turned out • out into the street, would immediately get into trouble. It was for these children that the Mental Defectives Act had been introduced. Sir Joseph Ward is a sick man, or he would never have suggested the scheme for borrowing £70,000,000. Mr. Coates is a man we should be proud of. He is a man of honour and one who can be trusted. (Laughter and applause.) A motion of thanks and of -confidence in the Reform Party was carried practically unanimously.