STRENUOUS CAMPAIGN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 81, 26 November 1931, Page 4

STRENUOUS CAMPAIGN

- WELL ATTENDED MEETINGS The Cpqlition pandidate for the Rotorua seat, Mr. C. H. Clinkard M.P. hUs been pursuing a very strenuous campaign in the country districts of the electorate during the .past fe/w days and has a yery fuil prpgramme until the eve of the election. On Monday night, with the Minister, of Lands, (Hon. E. A. Ransom) Mr. Clinkard had a very well attended and sympathetic meeting at Putaruru where a vote of thanks and ponfidence ' in the candidate was carried after* an exceptionally lohg questionaire had been satisfactorily answered by both the Minister. and the jmember. On Tuesday, the candidate addressed a well attended meeting at the Ngakura camp where a number of the Guthrie settlers gathered, and in the evening, he was at Ngongotaha where over a hundred people passed j a vote of thanks and confidence with only a half dozen dissenting voices. Yesterday the" candidate spoke at Okoiroirp in the afternoo.n and at Matamata in the evening. Mr Clinkard's itinerary for the reUiainder. of tlje campaign is as follows : — To-day, Litchfield in the afternoon' and Tirau at .night; Friday, Bai-th-plomew's mill in the afternoon, Mamaku in the evening; Saturday Maungatautari in the afternoon; Mokai in the afternoon, Taupo at night, Tuesday evening, the Grand Theatre Rotorua. Interviewed in regard to his attitude towards the challenge issued by the Labour candidate (Mr. A. F. Moncur) to meet the other three candidates in a joint meeting on the eve of the election, Mr. Clinkard stated that some time before the challenge was issued, he had made definite arrangements for a meeting in the Grand Theatre on his own . account. He did not prppose tp. altpr his arrapgements and preferred to follow the usual pustom and reply to the arguments pf his opponents from his own platform.