ELECTION FIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 489, 19 October 1928, Page 13

ELECTION FIGHT

CANDIDATES* MEETINGS ALL PARTIES ACTIVE Given below is a calendar of political meetings: FRIDAY (TO-NIGHT) Sir James Gunaon, Reform candidate for Suburbs, will address electors in the Whenuapai Hall at 8 pan. Mr. W. T. Anderton, Labour candidate for Eden, will address electors at the comer of Valley and Dominion Roads at 8 p.m. Mr. A. S. Richards, Labour candidate for Roskill, will address electors at the corner of Onslow Road and the Drive, Epsom, at 7.45 p.m. Mr. H. G. R. Mason, Labour, in Suburbs, is to speak at Avondale Town HaII at 8 p.m. Labour nominee in Roskill, Mr. A. S. Richards, will address electors at the corner of Onslow Road and The Drive, Epsom, at 7.45 p.m. SATURDAY Sir James Gunson, Reform candidate for Suburbs, will address electors in the Methodist Church, Te Atatu, at S p.m, MONDAY Mr. Bertram Bunn, Reform candidate for Manukau, will address electors In the Penrose Picture Theatre, at 8 p jn. Mr. J. S. Fletcher, United candidate for Grey Lynn, will address electors in the Methodist Hall, corner New North Road and Bright Str-eet, at 8 p.m. Mr. A. S. Richards, Labour man in Roskill, is to speak at the corner of St. Leonai*d’s Road and Mount Eden Road at 7.45 p.m. TUESDAY Mr. J. A. Lee, M.P., Labour candidate for Auckland East, will spe’ak in the Municipal Hall, Newmarket, at 8 p.m. Mr. A. S. Richards, Labour candidate in Roskill, will speak to electors at th© Methodist Hall, Kingsland Avenue, Mount Roskill, at 7.45 p.m. Mr. Bertram Bunn, Reform in Manukau, is to address electors at the Southern Cross Theatre, Ellerslie, at 8 p.m. Mr. W. T. Anderton, Labour man m Eden, will speak at the Jubilee Hall, Kingsland, at 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY Mr. J. A. Lee, Labour candidate in Auckand East, will continue his campaign at Parnell Library at 8 p.m. Mr. J. S. Fletcher, United candidate for Grey Lynn, .will address electors in the Adelphi Theatre, at 8 p.m. Mr. Bertram Bunn, Reform in Manukau, will speak at Greenwood’s Corner. Methodist Sunday School Hall, at 8 p.m. THURSDAY Mr. A. S. Richards will advance Labour's fight for Roskill at. St. Luke's Hall, Mount Albert, at 7.45 p.m. Mr. J. A. Lee, Labour man in Auckland East, is scheduled for St. Andrew’s Hall at 8 p.m. Reform’s candidature will be forwarded by Mr. Bertram Bunn at the Foresters’ Hall. On.ehunga, at 8 p.m In Labour’s contest for Eden seat, Mr. W. T. Anderton will Jse at the Congregational Hall, View Road and Esplanade Road, Mount Eden, at 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, Mr. H. E. Holland, M.P., Leader of the Opposition, will speak in the Town Hall.

LABOUR THAMES REFORM'S LAND POLICY CRITICISED ADVOCACY OF LEASEHOLDS (From Our Own Correspondent) THAMES. Thursday. The official Labour candidate, Mr. J. S. Montgomerie, addressed about 300 electors at Thames last evening. His speech was mainly a criticism of the Government. He said that everywhere in the electorate there was a feeling of dissatisfaction with the administration of the present Government. The Labour Party was the one that could be entrusted with eliminating the waste and overlapping that was taking place in the conduct of the country’s affairs. The establishment of a State Bank was part of Labour’s policy. The Rural and Economic Conference was favourable and had advocated such an institution. This country would not prosper until primary producers were financially assisted. The Rural Credit Bill, a Reform measure, was only available for men with ample security. _ The State Fire Insurance Department required more push, and the interests of the other fire companies should not be studied. Dealing with the Government’s land policy. Mr. Montgomerie challenged it to produce one Act that had helped to stabilise the position of the man on the land. Instead of settling men it was only driving them off it. The speaker said it was an injustice to allow wealthy people to purchase all the available land along a proposed railway route. and then resell at an advanced figure to the farmer. The Queensland Labour Government, he stated, was working smoothly and well, and, as a wellknown farmer and public man of Matamata had said such a Government was wanted in New Zealand. The cry of the Tory Party that Queensland was drifting, had its answer in the fact that British capital was pouring into Queensland. The lease in perpetuity was advocated by the candidate, and at the present time, under the freehold system, it was only wealthy people who could take up land in New Zealand. The speaker, touching on relief works, said it seemed to him that it was only a ■ way of attacking the wage rate of the worker, and a flagrant attempt on the Government’s part to get behind the Arbitration Act. The undeveloped resources of the country should make such a system unwarranted. He concluded his address with a statement that the batle of the election was virtually between _ vested interests on the one side, which was mainlv the policy of the Reform Party, and the other side was the interests of the people as advocated, by the Labour Party. A vote of thanks and confidence in the Labour Party was carried on the voices MR. SAMUEL AT THAMES (Special to THE SUN) THAMES, Thursday. Wherever he goes Mr. A. M. Samuel, Reform candidate for Thames, is meeting with enthusiastic audiences in the country centres of his electorate. At Tirohia on Tuesday evening he was accorded a special vote of thanks for his work in the interests of the farming community during the past three years. The meeting also passed a vote of confidence. At Matatoki last evening Mr. Samuel was again well received by a large meeting. which unanimously voted thanks and confidence in the candidate.