CAMPAIGN SHOTS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1931, Page 6

CAMPAIGN SHOTS

WHAT THE CANDIDATES ARE SAYING. “Just A Chance.’’ “I believe,” said Mr Logan, at Oxford, “that Mr Coates will be elected again all right, and there is just a chance that Mr Forbes will get back too.” ; ** * * Change-over from Wheat. “Why not cut up the wheat lands into dairy farms, now that fertilisers axe available on favourable terms?' Butter and cheese will pay the country better than heavily-protected wheat.”—M r T. Scollay, ‘lndependent candidate for Chalmers. I ** * * Many Opportunities heft. “This is not the time to look for the cauSfe 'of our troubles,’;’! said Mr G F. Allen, Coalition candidate for Christchurch East. The thing ,to do is t° make the best of our present opportunities. There are still many left.” n '- s * * * ; ’ “A Plea For a Chance.” i “You are going to give Labour the Treasury benches some day,” said Mr Logan,.iat Oxford. “Don’t be like Pat, wild wrote to bis mother ‘Dear Mothe,, —I am'Vsending you a pound, but not tliis week.” Wily not give Labour their turn now? Let us see what they can do.” A Good Bargain. According to Mr E. J. Howard, Lab” our candidate for Christchjircb South -tlniee Labour members of Parliament ‘ , saved 1 t|ie citizens oP Christchurch £2s,oUf)|.rup to date, on'" electricity. They made the best contract that , had pVer;/been made on the floor of the Hpcis'e and they bad pinned Mr Coatesv.jTmvn to it. '** * # ; l ’Oniteds Extinguished. “Mr-Coates is asking for a blank cheque and freedom from criticism by an alert and strong Opposition,” declarec* Mr J. M’Combs, speaking at Lyttelton. “The Uniteds have been extinguished by strategy, and the only obstacle in bis way is the Labour Party, and he wants that extinguished also.” 1 ** * * A Successful Member. “During my time in Parliament 'there has been nothing asked for by me that we have not got,” declared Mr E. J. Howard, the Labour candidate for Christchurch South, in opening. his campaign. “While I am tied to itlie national policy of the Labour Party, I am as free as any man in New Zealand in regard-.to local body or other local matters.”. . ' ; ‘[J- . l ‘.\ * * * # The Arbitration Act, “While I, have ;heard a number of members say ".thpt.'.it seems as if the Arbitration Act should he suspended for a couple of years, I have never come in contact with anyone who has seriously discussed doing away with * tbe r Act entirely. Personally I believe that the Act is quite all right.”—Mr R. W. .Hawke*, ..Coalition candidate for Kaiapoi. A Lesson From Football, “You have coalition in every Rugby football team,” said Mr G. F. Allen, Coalition candidate for Christchurch East, when opening his campaign. “What is coalition hut co-operation? As’the finest footballers in the world, Neiv. Zealanders should realise how necessary coalition L when the forces to be overcome are strong, and, also, how necessary it is that the team ’should he the strongest available, with, no split in the ranks to mar the playing effectiveness.” " The Small Farmers. “I realise that from the small farmer’s point of view there is no market equal to the market at his door,” said Mr-'R. W. Hawke, Coalition candidate for Kaiapoi, when discussing the need for - an expansion of secondary industries. “If we increase, the population and have a regular supply of money circulating through 'the country and the?workers’ homes if.is a sure thing that the small farmers will he able to market their products at payable prices. They will be happy and contented and will increase the wealth of the country. The few industries of and industrial workers we have the fewer farmers we will have.,” ■•-*.***’ - Assured of Four Votes. “If returned, will von do what you can to do away with profiteering in New Zealand?” was a question put to Mr G. F. Allen, Coalition candidate' for Christchurch East. “There are the huge dividends of the Bank of New Zealand,” the questioner continued. “There was a time when I, among others, was called upon to hack up the bank. Now, 1 think the bank should back me up.” There was a space in which the candidate’s reply was drowned in laughter,! hut at last he gave the assurance •that profiteering was not a practice itbich found favour in hisyeyes.' , "

■>?•' “Then you’ll got four votes from my home” declared the elector.