“LITTLE JACK HORNER"

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1043, 6 August 1930, Page 11

“LITTLE JACK HORNER"

MR. J. S. FLETCHER REPLIED TO A CHALLENGE “POLITICAL ASSOCIATION" TUE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The challenge made by Mr. C. If. Clinkard (United —Rotorua) to Mr. J. S. Fletcher (Independent—Grey Lynn* t.iat he should seek the opinion of th© electors of Grey Lynn as Mr. ti. R. K. Jenkins did in Parnell, was returned with interest in the House of Representatives today by Mr. Fletcher. He invited the Government to resign should the United Party candidate be beaten in a by-election for the Grey Lynn seat. Mr. Fletcher began his Budget debate speech by wanting to know whether the challenge made by M*\ Clinkard were a personal one or a party Reformers: Party! Mr. Fletcher: Then would tL United Party take the challenge of the member for Grey Lynn and if Its candidate for the seat is beaten, wi!’ it resign? No! It is a personal matter. He said that the policy of the Government in connection with himself was one of political assassination. It would send him to the poll and shoo* from behind closed doors and barred windows. That was the game. Mr. Fletcher had a sheaf of telegrams in his pocket from members of his c>min Grey Lynn all resenting the remarks of the member for Rolorue.. Mr. Clinkard had said he had sat silent on the subject of unemployment out of loyalty to his party. Mr. A. M. Samuel (Reform — Thames): Good old party hack! “I want to say.” went on Mr Fletcher,” that I’m not ashamed of the fact that I was born no.-th of the Tweed, as tht member for Rotorua said. There we do not teach the political ethics of the school to which the honourable member belongs. There promises are not pie-crusts—made be broken. The attitude of the member for Rotorua, said Mr. Fletcher, reminded him of the nursery # rhyme ending. “What a good boy am I!” This litt!Jack Horner from Rotorua —wha* about his election pledges regarding taxation and customs and unemploy ment? Had he kept them? Then Mr. Fletcher we at on to deal with, the Budget and the estimates.