ELECTION SMALL-FIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 25, 21 April 1927, Page 14

ELECTION SMALL-FIRE

SHOTS FROM CANDIDATES —AND AT THEM

I -it seems to me absurd that a man and his wife should have separate tickets on the Auckland tramways. Why, it is impossible, under existing circumstances, for a man to ‘shout’ for his wife!”—Mr. Warnock, on tramway matters, at Point Chevalier last night. # “If I have succeeded in doing nothing else. I have succeeded in arousing a considerable amount of interest in the contest.” —Mr. Bloodworth.

“If I have the honour to be elected mayor of this city the first thing I shall do will be to take stock as any business man would in any ordinary business.” —Mr. Warnock, at Point Chevalier last night.

“Order! Order!” cried Mr. Baildon. “I listened to your question. The least you can do is to listen to my reply.”

“I have never on any occasion introduced party politics into the business and I have not introduced it now. Auckland cannot afford to be governed by class prejudice.”—Mr. Bloodworth.

“This is my own meeting, and I give only my own ideas—l have no authority to speak for any other councillor or councillors.” —Mr. J. A. C. Allum at the Leys Institute, Ponsonby, last evening. * # “I look at these problems from the point of view of the working class. That is the only reliable guide that a man can have.” —Mr. Bloodworth. A Questioner: Is this last scheme for leasing the Civic Square not a deathbed repentance, just before t\ie council goes out? Mr. G. Baildon: I don’t think it Is anything of the sort. Considering the differences of opinion I think we have done well to reach some scheme with a degree of unanimity. Mr. Warnock is a firm supporter of the New Zealand Made Preference League. “Wear colonial boots,” he told Point Chevalier residents last night, “and provide work in your own country.” “We have done two years’ work and I don’t think it has been barren,” remarked Mr. Baildon. “Perhaps if we had told the papers of every little thing we did our reputation would be better to-day—but my mottor is deeds, hot words.” (Applause.) * * * Mr. Bloodworth: I don’t say that I am the best person to fill the office of mayor, but I do say that I am the best offering. “I do not propose to praise or to criticise my fellow councillors, but I desire to rebut the statements so widely circulated that the present council has been lethargic and incapable and has got into a muddle. None has yet stated definitely what has been muddled or in what way the council has failed,” remarked Mr. J. A. C. Allum to a large meeting at the Leys Institute, Ponsonby, last evening. Mr. Bloodworth declared at Point Chevalier last night that he was in favour of a ladies’ sports area. “And let them have it all to themselves,” he said. “We do not want them to ‘cadge,’ as now is the case!” * * * “Under the old scheme of salary adjustments the man who got in earliest and oftenest usually got what was going, but under the grading scheme inaugurated while I have been in office salaries are readjusted annually on the fairest basis.” —Mr. Baildon. Mr. Bloodworth: He may be a good chemist—l'm supposed to be a good carpenter. A voice: It looks like a prescription! “When I came into office there had never been any definite policy for the development of our water resources,” stated Mr. Baildon. “I was responsible for the development of a comprehensive scheme.” * * * “I have made no rash promises. I have promised nothing that cannot be carried out.” —Mr. Warnock, at Point Chevalier. Candidate Bloodworth: If I were as innocent of municipal matters as Mr. Schmidt I would probably issue a platform like that (holding up a circular). “I was responsible for immediately commencing a scheme to plant the whole of the outer domain in native trees,” asserted Mr. Baildon. “In the course of a few years we will have a magnificent piece of native bush in the heart of the city.” “This is one of the silly things that have been put up against me, said Mr. Warnock at Point Chevalier last night, when he gave the rumour that he owned a racehorse an emphatic denial. * # * “In connection with tree planting in the streets we have done more than has usually been the case,” remarked Mr. G. Baildon. “We planted between 1,200 and 1,500 last year.” * * * “The present mayor does not possess the faculty of leadership, but he has been more severely criticised by the press of the city than I would ‘ have criticised him,” said Mr. Bloodworth last night. It has been suggested that Mr. Warnock has shown no qualifications for leadership. "I have not had a chance yet,” he said at Point Chevalier last night, “but I can tell you this—l have never yet undertaken a job which I have not carried through!” * * * Councillor Bloodworth: I am being blamed in some quarters for being the person responsible for putting the private omnibus off the map—This is not correct.

“Do not let your mind be influenced by the last person you meet in the street on April 27,” Mr. Warnock told ratepayers at Point Chevalier last night. “Go right ahead and vote for the best man!”

‘During the course of the campaign I don’t intend to make any personal references whatever. Whatever I made in the beginning had to be made to clear the position.”—Mr. Baildon.

The tramway service of Auckland is no credit to a city like Auckland. It is conservative to a degree,” Mr. A. J. Stall worthy, candidate for city council honours, informed Point Chevalier residents last night.