THE COMING ELECTION

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 2780, 26 November 1931, Page 5

THE COMING ELECTION

MR r. LYE’S campaign;. REPRESENTATIVE MEETING AT !. morrinsville. On Tuesday evening Mr F. Lye addressed a representative mooting of about 400 electors in the Morrinsville Town Hall, the Mayor, Mr W. T. Os3jorne,i*prosiding. - : " . • The speaker dealt with the need for •the Coalition, and then went on to refer to Britain’s free trade system. He pointed out' that although the Labour Government at the last Imperial Conference had been /unsympathetic towards the proposals of Mr Forbes it had now been arranged that an economic conference be hold as soon as possible and he believed the British Empire would become an economic unit. Seeing that America had bled them white it was only reasonable for the British people to do something for ■themselves. Mr Lye characterised, the world-wide depression as the result of economic waste during the war and Britain more than any other nation had to bear the harden. Mr Lye then wont on to refer an detail to the effects in this country and upon all factions. ■ Dealing with the increase in income tax Mr Lye said it amounted to-20 per cent on earned income and ‘3O per cent unearned income, but if a man came under the category of having to pay lie •should look pleasant, because there were far many others who had r.o in•come :to pay on. Touching upon the good things in the Budget Mr Lye said £70,000 had been provided so that the price of superphosphate could be brought down 17/6 per ton. The lower price was to continue to June 30. He dealt with the reasons iwhy basic slag was not included in '.lie < mccssion, and said the relief was mainly to keep the money in the country. The candidate also spoke on the wheat duties, necessity for taxing luxuries and amusements, and derating. From the outset of Mr .Lye’s address there was a considerable amount of heckling, which appeared to bo of an organised nature, but the candidate freely retorted and the spirit of the meeting was quite a happy one. At the conclusion Mr Lye was accorded a special vote of thanks for his services to the electors and was warmly commended for his work. He was nlso/accorded a vote off thanks for his address and a vote of confidence in the Coalition Government was carried with acclamation, i GORDONTON MEETING. Last night Mr Lye addressed a well-, attended and most enthusiastic meeting at Gordonton, Mr Young being in the chair. Mr Lye spoke on similar lines to previous addresses, and on the motion of Messrs Bridgman and Gubb was accorded a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence, also confidence in the Coalition Government. There were four other speakers in support , of the motion, Mr Lye being thanked for his services in connection with the Taupiri drainage scheme. COUNTRY PARTY CAMPAIGN SUPPORT FOR MR ZIMAN. On Tuesday night Messrs W. Harbutt and R. H. Feisst, members of the Country Party executive, spoke at Waihou in support of Mr Ziman’s candidature. There was a good attendance. Mr Feisst stressed the actual difference between the Coalition and Country Party as being the essential policy of tariffs, which, in the speaker’s opinion, was the main cause of the present high coats, urgently necessary to be considerably reduced before New Zealand could expect to make any progress towards prosperity. The speaker also emphatically denied the statements claimed to have been made that Capt. Rushworth voted against the sliding scale of duties on wheat or against the subsidy on fertilisers, and challenged anyone to turn up Hansard in proof of any statements to the contrary. Mr Harbutt claimed there was no justification for ahy unemployment in New Zealand while millions of acres of undeveloped land remained in its virgin state. The speaker also stressed the point that the Country Party was a moderate party, and while placing the interests of the farming exporters as paramount, the interests of Uic whole community were equally guarded in the <»nly liberal policy that was being offered the electors'. Votes of thanks were accorded the speakers.

There was a very large attendance of electors at the Taupiri Hall last night when Messrs W. Boyd and R. H. Feisst spoke in support of Mr Ziman. '.lj\ e addresses were along the lines of those given at Waihou. The speakers regretted very much that the same statements they were called upon to refute in other districts, as regards Captain Hush worth’s voting on the wheat question- and fertiliser subsidy, again required refutation.

Mr Boyd stressed the fact that electors were requested to support a candidate of outstanding attainments. He was a straight-forward man as was his worthy opponent. A vote of thanks was accorded the speakers. Yesterday Mr Ziman addressed meetings at lviwitahi and ,Springdale, and in each case was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. THE RAGLAN ELECTORATE. MR STEWART REID. “I am here to turn my opponent cut,” said Mr Reid, Coalition candidate, at his Raglan meeting early in the week. “ The Labour Party is not the friend of the farmer. Any farmer who supports Labour is not working in the interests of his country. Wherever Labour has been in power it has demonstrated its lack of knowledge of the principles of sound finance. No Socialist can adequately represent a farmingcommunity.” Yesterday Mr Reid spoke at Glen Afton, Renown township and Rotowaro. SUPPORT FOR MR REID. Warm support for Mr D. Stewart Reid, the Coalition candidate for the Raglan electorate, was accorded at a meeting at Ohaupo on - Tuesday evening. Mr W. Forsyth, chairman of the Ohaupo Town Board, presided over an attendance of about 200. Mr Reid, said lie was satisfied that the Coalition Government would be able to bring back prosperity and that the policy of Mr Downio Stewart, who possessed one of the soundest minds in the country, should be followed. The meeting passed a vote of thanks and confidence in Mr Reid. Yesterday Mr Reid addressed wc-11-attended meetings at Renown township, Rotowaro, Glen Afton and Pukcmiro. MR LEE MARTIN’S CAMPAIGN. Yesterday Mr Lee Martin, Labour member for Raglan, addressed electors at Kaawa, Opuatia and Pukekaha. THE ROTORUA SEAT. COALITION AT PUTAEURU. The Town Hall, Putaruru, was filled on Tuesday when the Hon. E. A. Ransom, Minister of Lands, in conjunction with Mr C. H. Clinkard, Coalition candidate for the Rotorua electorate, addressed the electors. The Minister received a quiet hearing but the candidate was continually heckled and at tho conclusion a motion of no-confid-enco was moved. CAMPAIGN NOTES. NOT ON THE' ROLL. Now that the rolls have closed a number of persons in the Waikato electorate arc finding that their names are not included, ami on polling day they will not be allowed to exercise their vote. In former years, due to the Continuance and No-License organisations, very few people were missed on the rolls. Tho organisation was very thorough, and in the event of a young person not coming of ago in time for the main roll, a note was taken of the day of the 2.lst birthday and every care was taken to see that the name was recorded on the supplementary roll. . The printing of the supplementary rolls for tho Waikato Electorate have just been completed by tho Independent job-printing department. The roll has a total of 1181 names. RED BECOMES PINK. “Why do you call the Labour Party Socialists?” was asked of the Coalition candidate for Wellington South at one of his meetings. “I am glad to be able to tell you that,” replied the candidate, producing the New Zealand Worker. “This is what Mr Walter Nash, the national secretary of the Labour Party, has got to say: ‘The fate of tho workers of this country is trembling in the balance. A victory for Labour is a victory lor our objective—Socialism,’ That is why I call you Socialists. You would have your own people think you believe in Socialism, but you come before the moderates and want them to think you arc Labour. You are Red to yourselves and Pink to outsiders. Our Socialist friends are gradually getting pinker and pinker. They are getting more Liberal in their views. I can see them ultimately becoming the Liberal Party of New Zealand.' Tho Communists are going to be the new Labour Party. It is the result of rubbing shoulders with more enlightened business men.” Roars of disgust from the rear. ONLY A SHEEP-RUN. “If New Zealand is to be only a sheep-run or a cow-yard, she will ;.ncver carry a large population. Until we

look after our secondary industries we will never bring back an era of prosperity.”—Mr H. T. Armstrong, Labour candidate for Christchurch East, at Beckenham. “THE WHOLE BAKERY.” “Better half a loaf than no bread,” called an interjector at the Riccarton Town Hall, when Mr G. T. Thurston, Labour candidate for Riccarton, was contrasting the 10/- a week earned by men in relief camps with the profits of certain trading companies, and maintaining that such, a rate of pay should not bo permitted. “I agree with you,” was the candidate’s reply, “but I believe that the workers should tako tho whole bakery!” LOAVES OF BREAD. And while on the subject of the loaf one cannot but help appreciate the originality shown by the local Country Party .cxecutivo in advertising at its head-quarters near the Post Office, its advocacy of the necessity of a reduction in the wheat duties. To demonstrate its claims the executive exhibit two different sized loaves of bread, and of course, set out that with a reduction in the duties the voter would be able to purchase the larger at the price of the smaller loaf. To emphasise a strong plank of the Country Party’s platform —that of the necessity of removing the p.rotcctivo customs taxation on necessities, the executive have exhibited in another window of their headquarters, a pair of ladies’ shoes. WAITOMO ELECTORATE. DISSATISFACTION EXPRESSED Great dissatisfaction is expressed in many parts of the electorate at the absence of a political contest in Wai tomo. A general misunderstanding regarding the presence of an Independent, Reform candidate in the field precluded the entrance of a third in the shape of an Independent Labour candidate lest there should bo vote-splitting. Many Reform supporters express resentment at being dictated to as to the manner in which they should record their vote. NO STRAWBERRIES. During the course of the Reform League meeting arranged to meet Sir James Parr yesterday Mr F. Lye took the opportunity to thank Sir James and the local Reform executive for the manner in which they had honoured the Coalition agreement between tire two parties. Mr Lye was mentioning that lie had been generously treated by Reformers in other parts of the electorate, especially by the ladies who had arranged afternoon tea for him on more than one occasion. There was hearty laughter when Sir James naively remarked, “Are they giving you strawberries, Fred?” “DRY” ELECTION DAY. Election day, December 2, will 1)3 deemed a public holiday after midday, and it will not. be lawful to sell intoxicating liquors in any licensed premises between the hours of noon and 7 p.m., according to tho Licensing Act, 1927, even though there will be no liquor poll. Factories need not close during working hours on polling day provided that each employee is given a reasonable opportunity to record his or her vote without any deduction from wages. The Act allows the weekly half-holi-day under tho Shops and Offices Act to bo transferred to polling day in the week in which the poll is taken, so that employers who are accustomed tc | allow the half-holiday on Saturday 1 may cancel that half-heliday if they wish. COMING MEETINGS. This afternoon at 2 o’clock Messrs F. Lye and D. Stewart Reid, Coalition candidates for Waikato and Raglan respectively, will address a joint meeting at the Leamington Hall. As advertised on page 1 of to-day’s issue Mr Lye will address Cambridge district electors in the Town Hall tomorrow night, his meeting commencing at 9 o’clock. Mr D. Stewart Reid will speak at the Roto-o-rangi school to-night at 8 o’clock. The Country Party candidate, Mr S. N. Ziman, will address the electors at Tamaherc, to-morrow, at 8 p.m. Mr Leo Martin, the Labour candidate for Raglan, will speak at Kaipalci this afternoon, and Ohaupo to-night.