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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19441, 29 October 1925, Page 6

A letter awaits Mr H. Haybittie it this office. At 1.30 yesterday afternoon the Wanganui Fire Brigade received a call to a grass fire in Cook’s Gardens. The outbreak was extinguished before any damage was done.

Owing to election day falling on the usual stock sale day, the next Wanganui stock sale will be held on Thursday, November 5.

A question was asked Mr Coull last evening in the Opera House regarding his attitude to Prohibition. “My opinion will be expressed at the ballotbox,’’ replied the candidate. (Applause). Personally he was more interested in the party question, and was standing on behalf of Reform. An elderly man was on his feet early when question time came round at a Christchurch election meeting. After a speech of five minutes’ duration, with no sign of a question, the chairman interrupted, “Where is your question? You are making a speech.” “It’s all right, Mr. Chairman,” was the response, “this opportunity comes only once in every three years.”

“You can have no difficulty in sorting up the planks of the present Government and the planks of the Labour Party,” said the Prime Minister at Te Aroha. “You can draw your own conclusions. The Government stands for progressive government and it is endeavouring to accomplish a number of things which will be in the interests of every elector.’*

“There is one good thing about proportional representation. It is the only good feature which the muchvaunted system of consulting the electorate possesses, and it is that it gives some folk who wish to pose as mathematical wizards an opportunity to wallow in figures,” said Mr. M. E. Lyons, Reform candidate for Lyttelton, speaking at Opawa.

“There are three, if not more, Parties offering themselves in the present election—the Reform Party, led by Mr. Coates, the Labour Party and the Nationalists—the last-named really the remnants of the old Liberal Party. The Nationalists are really the same old horse under another name—Willie Lincoln being run in as All Smoke!” —Mr. H. S. S. Kyle, Reform candidate for the Bic ear ton seat.

On Sunday evening, at a Dunedin church, the presiding minister read a lengthy bulletin of intimation, which concluded as follows: “A retiring collection will be taken up in aid of ; during the week collectors'will wait on you for subscriptions for the mission: an appeal is also made on behalf of the building fund, the finances of which are sadly depleted; your freewill offerings will now be taken after which the choir will render, “Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled.’ ” It is suspected that the anthem was specially selected for the occasion of so many appeals to the liberality of the congregation.

There is one man in Wanganui who does not believe that trees planted nonv will ever be money in his lifetime. At the Opera House last evening Mr Coull was describing the operations of the Forestry Department and quoted he amounts of expenditure and revenue during the last five years, the latest year showing a profit. This was too much for one man in the audience, who was evidently a die-hard so far as rhe Reform Government is concerned. “But where does the revenue come from?” he asked. “From the sale of trees,” replied the candidate “But you know it takes 100 years to grow a tree,” retorted the questioner scornfully at what he evidently thought was a barefaced effort to delude the public.