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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22611, 16 May 1945, Page 4

BY-ELECTION WE FIGHT FOR NEW ZEALAND LEE, D.C.M. LEE, D.C.M. LEE, D.C.M. Speaks tonight at KNOX CHURCH HALL Hamilton East at 8 p.m. p and TOMORROW THURSDAY ST. GEORGE’S HALL FRANKTON 8 p.m. St. Andrew’s Hall meeting . . . another Lee triumph; Hundreds unable to find accommodation . . . Cheers, goodwill, donations . . . The Hall so full the audience sat on the stage around the speaker’s feet and crowded the Supper Room . . . Democratic Labour on the March. MR. NORDMEYER AND THE BARBER. “Cut my hair,” said Mr Nordmeyer, taking a seat. “A little off the top.” “A little off the top, Sir?” “Exactly.” “Urn,” said the barber, “you get a haircut as you get a political speech.” “Meaning?” said the Minister of Health, cheerfully. “Meaning that the speech is like the hair on top. It lacks content.” “And you can dye the forelock,” said Mr Nordmeyer. “For instance,” said the barber, “this speech of yours. ‘A vote for Lee,’ said you, ‘is a vote for Mrs Ross.’ Now Nationalist and Labour have both over-committed our manpower. New Zealand’s casualties are 16,074 per million people, Canada 1723, South Africa 2406, Australia 10,730, and the United Kingdom 8083, and Parliament is still calling up men. So that on manpower a vote for Mr Barren is a vote for Mrs Ross, and a vote for Mrs Ross is a vote for Mr Barrell. Whereas John A. Lee says, bring New Zealanders back to food production until the rest of the world has done as much.” “Hush,” said Mr Nordmeyer, looking around, “hush. I part it on the side, remember.” “But,” said the persistent barber, “John A. Lee says when the War Wage Tax and War Sales Tax were put on he moved to exempt low incomes and that Nationalist and Labour voted together, so that a vote for Mr Barrell was a vote for Mrs Ross, and a vote for Mrs Ross a vote for Mr Barrell, whereas a vote for Lee is a vote for lower taxation on pensioners, workers, farmers, businessmen.” By now Mr Nordmeyer was inclined to pull his hair out by the roots. “Walter Nash doubts whether a gratuity can be paid,” said the barber, digging the Minister in the ribs with the scissors. “John A. Lee says a soldier should have an overseas gratuity of at least £IOO a year. Isn’t a vote for Mr Barrell a vote for evasion and a vote for Lee a vote for a £IOO gratuity.” “I come for a haircut and what do I get?” protested the Minister of Health. “Now John A. Lee says the Old Age Pension needs increasing, that farmers’ prices are out of joint, that money for soldiers’ houses should be available at 1£ to 1 1-3 per cent.” Mr Nordmeyer groaned, jumped out of the chair. “You can cut it another day,” he said. “If I stay here much longer it will become grey. And I’ve got to pretend that it’s red.” “But really, Mr Nordmeyer—” “You don’t understand,” said Mr Nordmeyer. “This Lee chap is building a sound political house. Air is the antidote. And whether you part my hair in the middle or on the side I’m here in Hamilton to huff and puff and blow the house down.” “But this Lee chap says—” The Minister fled. All correspondence Box 52, Hamilton. addressed to 861 D.C.M. Speaks On FRIDAY NIGHT AT 7.30 In A Section Adjoining GARDEN PLACE 883 DIRECTORS G. SCRIMSHAW, LTD. Waikato’s Leading Funeral Directors. Hood St., Hamilton, l’hone 2182 any hour. Res. 8 Thackeray Bt. rp W ; GEE & COM PAN • Funeral Directors, 212 Victoria Street. Hamilton, omce and Chapel, Phone 1485. Res. 55 Queen’s Ave. Phone 22 1