Raglan Snapshots

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 157, 23 September 1927, Page 1

Raglan Snapshots

Incidentals of Campaign

“ A T the last elections quite a numher of young people 'fell’ for Mr. Coates’s photograph,” said Mr. P. Fraser last night. ... A METHODIST clergyman, Mr. Carr, was a persistent questioner at Mr. Waring’s meeting at Huntly on Wednesday, and he put several queries to Mr. Martin last night. A POSER for Mr. Martin: Do you believe that the elimination of drink, the social evil, would be in the best interests of the working man? — Personally, I do.

* * * " A WIN in Raglan will send a thrill of hope through the workers and struggling farmers of the Dominion.” —Mr. Peter Fraser, in his appeal for Labour.

• * * “tpHE old-fashioned way of putting - 1 the boss in, and expecting him to legislate for you, has gone by.”— Mr. W. C. E. George, chairman of the Huntly Town Board.

"/TABINET MINISTERS are straying to Raglan.”—Mr. Peter Fraser, who condemned the present Government as the most undemocratic and unconstitutional the country had seen. ILTR. JAMES McNEE, at Huntly, criticised the presence in the electorate of Cabinet Ministers and Labour members alike. He thought they should be in the House, doing their jobs.

• • • “VUE believe Mr. Martin is the best ” man available,” said Mr. Fraser, answering Mr. J. Neljine (Huntly), who suggested that the methods by which the candidate was selected were open to question.