Political Pot-shots.
It Occurs to Me
'J4IE REFORMERS of Auckland East seem to be practising a game of hit or miss, not unlike that played by the patrons of Chocolate Alley. Along this intriguing aisle the proprietors of the stalls will sometimes let you choose whether you aim to miss, or aim to hit, to win the prize. In the case of the Reformers, they apparently aimed to get Sir George Richardson, but he, not being sufficiently interested in politics, has refused to be a party to political potshots, whereas in the case of Miss Melville, whose ambition is to be knocked down for Parliamentary candidature, and whom they have chosen to ** give a miss ” to this time, they find themselves faced with the unexpected embarrassment of a “ women’s candidate ” without party affiliations. It is tempting Providence for any party to say “ they don’t want any females,” and although one rather suspects that the Aucklanders’ objection is not so much that she is a woman as that she is Miss Melville, yet . . . Well, Sally has some influence down our alley. „ B.E.S.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 191, 13 August 1931, Page 8
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181Political Pot-shots. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 191, 13 August 1931, Page 8
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