HOW IT IS HONE

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1778, 3 July 1926, Page 4

HOW IT IS HONE

SELECTION OP REFORM CANDIDATES. The system of selecting the Reform to contest Government seats was explained in the House on Tuesday by the Minister of Lands (Hon. A. D. McLeod), who is head of the Reform Political Association. The Minister, during the course of a reply to statements as to Reform methods of selecting candidates, took the opportunity of congratulating the mover and seconder of the motion for the Address-in-Reply on their maiden efforts. The Minister’s remarks did not take the usual bald form —a phrase with which the New Zealand Parliament is very conversant —but he went further and said: “As head of the Reform Political Association, I have often been asked if we had any special men in view for Parliamentary candidates, and I have invariably replied, ‘Go out and select any reasonable chap, or man who is capable; of defending himself outside the House and in it, and we will be prepared to accept them as candidates on the spot.’ ” The Minister claimed that the result had brought forth candidates of high qualifications as instanced in the mover and the seconder of the Ad-dress-in-Reply, and that the further result had been seen in the fact that out of 54 seats the Reform party had secured an absolute majority of votes in 50.