ELECTION CAMPAIGN

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1925, Page 3

ELECTION CAMPAIGN

[BY TELEGHAI’I1 —PER. PRESS ASSOCIATION'.]

lIP. THACKER’S CANDIDATURE CHRISTCHURCH. Oct. 2(1.

Dr Thacker, who will not arrive in the Dominion until about, election date, cabled his intention to stand for Uhri-itchurrh North. His friends "ill lodge nomination papers and Messrs Forbes and Buddo will speak on his behalf. THE PRIME MINISTER. NEW PLYMOUTH, October 27. The Premier (lion. .1. G. Coates) addressed a crowded meeting and received a vote of thanks and confidence by ncela ma lion. The Premier took occasion of his rooeni usit here to issue another denial of ilie Labour Party's accusation that the (ioverimient intended to reduce wages by 7s fid ]>or week, lie said the repetition of this falsehood shows the poor eoneeotioii ot lair tactics on tfic part of those persisting in its circulat ion. THE NATIONALIST LEADER. CHRISTCHURCH. October 27. Mr H. W. Forbes, leader of the Opposition. addressed a large audience at Rieearton. He defended the change ot name to Nationalist and hlained the Hovernmeni for the failure of fusion, lie also (-(indemned their lavish borrowing. A vote of thanks and confidence was passed. ELECTIONEERING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. BLENHEIM. Oei. 27. A full share of the difficulties of campaigning was extierienced by Mr M - H. Hilling, the Government candidate for Wairnu, on Saturday. Mr Girling and party set out in a launch on an electioneering tour to Port I nderwood lint shortly after starting a fierce southerly gale sprang up. and the party had a rough experience, being soused with seawater, while some were sea-sick, until a- landing was effected at Ocean Bay. From this point, as there was not a hope of the launch facing the storm, the party had to tramp sixteen miles over steep mountain tracks until they reached Rarangi. at the cml of Cloudy Bay. where a car returned with them to Blenheim. The tracks were in an execrable condition owing to slips and overgrowth, and Mr Girling himself and the other members of the party were in the last | stages of exhaustion when Rarangi was sighted and had to be assisted over the steen vtg/ag by means ot which the track finds its way to tho lieach at Rarangi.