ELECTION CAMPAIGN

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4888, 9 October 1925, Page 2

ELECTION CAMPAIGN

MR. SAMUEL AT PAEROA. A SYMPATHETIC MEETING. Mr A. M. Samuel, Reform candidate for Ohinemuri, addressed the electors of Paeroa at a well attended meeting in the Gaiety Theatre last evening. Mr G. Buchanan presided in the unavoidable absence of the Mayor, and in introducing the candidate mentioned .that Mr Samuel was a wellknown sportsman, and also a dairy farmer. The candidate’s address was largely on the lines of the one given at Hikutaia and reported, with the exception that he amplified his previous statements in regard to the housing and pension policies of the present administration. Mr Samuel set out to prove that the housing and pension legislation of New Zealand led the world, and that only a Government which Was imbued with liberal and humanitarian ideals would ever have brought it into existence.. At the conclusion of the address the candidate answered to the satisfaction of his audience a small fusillade of questions, scoring heavily in some cases under cross-examination. His answers were conclusive, and in some cases very witty. In answer to a question as to whether fie would admit that Mr H. Holland was one of the best debaters in the House, and one of .the best read men, the candidate scored by quoting: "I came t'/ bury Caesar, not to praise him.” In r.eply to Mr W. Taylor who asked if it wap not a fact that the miners’ phthisis legislation had been forced from the Government at the point of the bayonet, the candidate said that he was sure that if the. Opposition had held a bayonet so close it to do anything is would have ffirivto the Government’s throat as to fores en the bayonet right home. The questioner acknowledged his defeat with a smile, and observed, •“Over the boundary for six." The meeting was exceedingly sympathetic, and concluded with a vote of thanks to and confidence in the candidate on the motion of Mr W. F. Johnstone, seconded by Mr W. J. Towers.