A VIGOROUS LETTER.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1925, Page 4

A VIGOROUS LETTER.

(V V! |; y PARTY’S CANDIDA!!- \ F(T\ LAND, Nov. 111.

The bitterness an.l ai.usiveness of the defeated Labour Candidate for Mars<l• -11 are made comparatively mild by com] arisen with an extraordinary letter written to the “NAhakatane Press” !:v the defeated Country candidate for Ihe Rot'run seat. Air Frank Colfieck. The letter is as follows:-

“.'-’oine of your leaders may he ii lere-ied in hearing my views on the n

suit of the recent election. The"issues between tlie Reform Government and the Country Party were (lonr-cut. AYe advocated (.1) cheat) money. (2) reduced cost ill living. (Ji a democratic system of electing members. The Reform Party advocated (It dear money. (Ji increased cost of living, (J) tlie first past the post method of election.

“Put in another form, we advocated (1) agricultural hanks, which pay no dividends: (•_’) cheap clothing and other necessaries: (J) preferential voting, which means that tlie winning candidate must get an absolute majority. Reform advocated (1) Rank of Now Zealand, and dividends of (57A per cent, or more; (2) dear clothes and dear necessaries; (J) representation by minorities.

“Tin? fanner evidently prefers tlie •Reform programme. Nineteen hundred and twenty-five years ago the people wore asked to choose between a perfect Man and a robber. They choso the robber. It is- curious how history repeats itself. I understand that the largest department in hell is a huge drying room. This is reserved exclusively for farmers. It- was rendered necessary because farmers were so green that they would not burn until they had been kiln-dried for three months. When the farmers of Auckland province are hung up by the ‘brocks’ in this room—the temperature T am told, is maintained at 3do degrees—they will have ample time to think over the result of the 192.) election. I believe that, prohibition is strictly enforced.’'