WHITHER BOUND?

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 591, 10 December 1920, Page 2 (Supplement)

WHITHER BOUND?

A candidate in the recent Victoria State elections, who is described in the Melbourne "Leader" as a" most rampageous speaker," at one of his meetings "started with a descriptive mildness and worked himself up by successive stages till he arrived at the top of his power, and then his speech was suggestive of nothing so much as the well known description of the fighting lions: 'Ramped and roared the lions, with horrid laughing jaws, They bit, they glared, gave blows, like beams, a wind went with their paws, With wallowing might and stifled roar," etc.

The candidate was actually foamed, he threw out a continual spray, he grew red in the face, the colour deepened to* purple, and from the sounds he made you gathered next to nothing. It was a continuous roar. When he had finished his chairman said: "You have heard the candidate's address. Have you any questions to ask ?" A solemn stranger arose. "Yes, sir," said he; "I should like you to tell me is this gentleman a candidate for Parliament or for ]£ew?"

Kew, it may be added, bears the relationship Melbourne that Avondale does to Auckland, Porirua to Wellington, Sunnyside to Christchurch, and Seacliff to Dunedin.