On the Hustings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 160, 27 September 1927, Page 1

On the Hustings

Raglan Paragraphs SINCE June, 1924, the motor vehicles of the country have more than doubled.” —Mr. Coates, on road maintenance. LIBERAL leaders in action last evening: Sir Joseph Ward, at. Huntly. Mr. W. A. Veitch, at Taupiri; Mr. H. Atmore, aiy Horotiu. MEW ZEALAND has more surfaced road than the State of New York, with its ten million inhabitants. —The Prime Minister strikes an effective comparison. IT is not the Government taxation, but local taxation in rates, that is crippling the taxpayer to-day.”—The Right Hon. J. G. Coates, at Ngaruawahia. “MEW ZEALAND can look for a A' bright future for primary produce, as economic conditions in Britain are steadily improving,” said the Prime Minister last night. tpHE air was loaded with promises -*- of financial assistance to the farmers. The Government had got Into the habit, whenever the farmers asked for help, of giving them an Act of Parliament instead. A GOOD land system would be a system that would hold men to the land and give them the best possible living while they are working it. —Mr. H. E. Holland at Waiuku last evening. “tT'ALK about strikes and go-slows,” said Mr. H. E. Holland, M.P., to Waiuku electors last evening. “The mortgage knows no strike. It works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 31 days a month, and 12 months of every year.” r pHE farmer can even laugh at his burdens. “Look at thfe mortgage figures,” said Mr. Holland. “This is a rich district. I take It that there are no mortgages round here.”—The farmers present from their superior intimate knowledge, shook their mortgaged coat fronts in hearty laughter. "DEFERRING to his alliance with Mr. W. D. Lysnar, M.P., in the committee fight against the Chattels Transfer Bill, Mr. H. E. Holland raised a guffaw with the declaration, “When you find a Reformer and myself fighting on the same side you can bet your last mortgage there is something worth fighting for.” RPHE farmer is by nature really an optimist. He loves to be chivvied about the motor-car he hasn’t got —yet, or the mortgages he has only too many of —now. The interests that had killed dairy control included Rolls Royce, Limited. “You know Rolls Royce,” said Mr. Holland to Waiuku electors last evening. “It’s the firm the farmer buys his motorcar from when he can’t buy it from Mr. Ford.”