WOOING THE ELECTORS

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 275, 26 November 1935, Page 2

WOOING THE ELECTORS

“AND I AM THE ONE’” “Not so many talking at once,” Baid Mrs Knox Gilmer (Independent • —Wellington North) to intelrjectors at a political meeting at Wellington. “One at a time. And lam the one!” she added amid (roars of laughter.

NOT ALWAYS!

Mt W» E. Barnard (at Napier tas'j evening): A man and wife do not want to live! together sometimes. Why, even my wife and I would not want to be together all the time. A voice: Look at Charlie laughing. "Charlie” was Mr C. 0. .Morse, who acted as Mr Barnard’s chairman. QUESTION OF FREEDOM "It has come to my knowledge tihat certain of the large emiployers have been definitely instructing their empiloyees that they must vote for the Govelrtnimemt candidate,” said Mr W. E. Barnard in Napier last evening. << What with cups of tea and orders from ‘bosses,’ I don’t know what this country’s freedom is coming to.” MR HISLOP SETS THE PACE! The Democrat candidate for Masterion, Mr T. C. A. Hislop, leader of the partly, hiaiS been' addressing as many as six meetings daily, as Wote yesterday’s fixtures:—Monday: 9.45 a.m., Mr Maxwell’s shearing shed, Matahiwi; 10.30, Matahiwi School; 2.30 p.m., Mt. Bruco Hall; 4.30 p.m., Rim'u Sawmill; 7.30 p.m., Mauriceville East; Featherston XWairarapa electorate) at 10 p.m. NOT BACKED BY BANKS He denied that the banks or other Vested interests were behind »his

i party. He said his party would put the present Government out, but would not put Labour into power. It would force through preferential voting, and, If necessary people could then decide the political future at another election. —Mr. T. C. A. Hislop (Dem., Masterton). UNDER NO OBLIGATION. “I owe no obligation to any of them; I have made no pledge to either party,” said Mr. R. A. Wright, Independent candidate for Wellington Suburbs. Mr. Wright said it had been suggested he had “squared” the National and Democrat parties not to send a candidate into the field against him. “But how could I square both of them when they are fighting like Kilkenny cats all over the country?” he asked. THE INTEREST BURDEN

"Phew,” murmured a member of Mr G. T. Thurston’s election meeting at Upper Riceariton recently, when tlhiei candidate decJared that in the past twenty years no less a sum than £141,000,000 had been paid in interest on loans. Of every £lOO received in payment of New Zealand’s expotws to 'dine Old Country, he said, £4l was used for tlhe payment of interest to the bondholders and only £59 came back in goods.—Christchurch Star. MR MACFARLANE SCORES Mr R. MJ. Maefarlane, Labour can di- . date for Ohirilsitchurch North, scored off j Mr Forbes when he addresed electors j at the Rugby Street Methodist School- I room'■recc-nitly. Mr .Macfarlane Said that 1 Mr Forbes had irfeicently (put up the cry, "God help New Zealand if the Labour Party gains power,” then with the air of a man playing a trump card Mjr Macfarlane pjroduced an advertisement quoting Mr Forbes at the 1928 election, wheh he said, "God hfeUp

New Zealand if Mr Coates is put into power. ” * AUDIENCE ENTERTAINED Col. S. J. E. Closey’s large audience in Levin last week were vastly entertained by the speaker’s brigfat and frequent sallies made at the expense of the present administration. Col. Olosey commented strongly that the tariff system was inequitable l , pointing out that luxuries like diamonds were buitj Tightly taxed. “Those ladies whose husbands are in the habit of presenting them with jewellery may thus take compassion from the fact that of the total purchased money only one’-thirty-seveintth is tax,” he said. “Howevekp for moslt! of us, there is only one ecstatic moment when we purchase diamonds, and wo are not then greatly concerned with”political economy.’ ’

"There .aire at present 144 commissions in existence for various investigation purposes upon all manner of subjects,” declared the speaker when dealing with this phase of the Governmginlf’s administration. "The next step should be to set up a fu'rther such commission to investigate into what all the others are doing and then we might have a national policy.”

"The Government told us that we had turned itlhe corner,” he rfetmarked a few moment's later. "Then we had turned another, and still another, and now the Unemployed Board is to remove the corner out of fhd way.”

"Mr Forbes has said that Britishers are never seen at their best unltil they are facing the worst'. We are now wondering how much more We will have to endure before qualifying as firue Britishers.”

■ "Again,” remarked Col. Closey, ; "the Government has (pointed out that we have expierienced the worst. We have reached bed-rock —we have touched the 'bottom-— ~we are bumping along the bottom, and ar.e now wondering if we shall fall down the sink, and th'eln the whole show wilt he over. ”