“WELL-FOUND LINER”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 447, 31 August 1928, Page 7

“WELL-FOUND LINER”

REFORM PARTY PRAISED RAGLAN CAMPAIGN OPENS (From Our Oxen Correspondent.) NGARUAWAHIA, To-day. “Reform is a wel-found liner with a first-class skipper, officers and crew,” said Mr. W. Seavil, Reform candidate for Raglan, who opened his election campaign at Ngaruawahia last evening. There was a large audience, the Mayor, Mr. H. J. Sampson, presiding. Mr. Seavil said there would be a good clean fight between him and his Labour opponent, Mr. W. L. Martin, and although Labour had gained the seat at the by-election, Raglan was still really Reform. The speaker said he had a sympathy with Labour, but-he was against the Communistic and Socialistic tendencies of the party. A Socialistic State would lead to cliques and graft, for Socialism was practicable only in a state of angels. Communism was like foot-and-mouth disease, a contagious and eruptive fever attacking warm-blooded animals. The consequences were a habit of vicious kicking and incapacity for work. • Speaking of the other parties in the field, he described the United Party as a weasel bound for the same port as Reform, but having nothing more to offer in the way of comfort and safety. The Country Party was like a tug ready to sell its services in the hope of earning something by bringing one of the other parties into harbour. Labour, on the other hand, was steering an uncharted course into a rockstrewn harbour. Expressing views on current problems, Mr. Seavil said he favoured interEmpire free-trade, excluding the cheap labour Asiatic countries within the Empire. He admitted, however, that protective duties enabled the making of advantageous trade treaty bargains between New Zealand and Australia for example. Referring to the agricultural financial problem, he said there should be a lighter tax on income derived from rural investment in order to encourage the taking up of rural securities. It would be a good thing if land tax was abolished completely, and the tax made on income alone. He announced that his slogans were: “Regain Raglan for Reform,” hnd “SeaSeavil Stands for Social Stability.”