THE HUSTINGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 498, 30 October 1928, Page 8

THE HUSTINGS

IX Till-: SAMI-: Tip AT Asked his views on the prohibition question, Mr. C. R. Petrie, the Labour candidate for Hauraki, at Papatoetoe last evening’ said that the electors had nothing to choose between the three candidates, as they all favoured two Issues and a bare majority. v>ekixitely rklk ;ic n~s "Tho Labour Party is definitely religious,” said Mr. J. W. Yarnall, Labour candidate for Parnell, last evening. “There are religious men in the movement, and if I am elected, you will have an ex-parson in Parliament.” AS OTHERS SEE lIS. “You know, Auckland is no.t as popular in other parts of New Zealand as you think it is,” Hon. J. G. Coates told his audience in the Town Hall last

evening. “In 1 the South,” he added, “the statement that one belongs to Auckland does not always create the best impression.”

REAL IS SITES “To-day the people New Zealand aro taking politics seriously. I don’t remember when people were so interested. They are going to vote on the real political issues this time.” —Mr. J. A. Lee at. Mr. W. T. Anderton’s meeting last evening. * * * ZULU FINANCE “To listen to the Tory M.P. who is stumping my electorate you would think the Labour Party has as much financial genius as a Zulu.”—Mr. W. T. Anderton at Dominion Road last evening. * * * NO MYSTERY

“No one asks the Reform Government, ‘Where are you going to get the money from?* Perhaps they know

' where the Reform Party gets its money.”—Mr. W. T. Anderton at Dominion Road last evening. LABOUR’S SLOGAN “A vote for the United Party is a vote for Reform, but a vote for Labour is a vote for true reform.” —Mr. W. T. Anderton at Dominion Road last evening. PEEIJXO OFF “Mr. Coates has his coat off now, and before he finishes he will be stripped right down to the singlet. I feel sure that the Coates party is going to crash as a political party has never crashed in recent history.”—Mr. J. A. Lee at Mr. TV. T. Anderton’s meeting last night. THE CONJURER “When the Uniteds failed to find a footing for themselves on any ground that the Government could have lost in public esteem, they called on Sir Joseph Ward. He made many passes with the magic wand over the political hat, and out came seventy millions of rabbits,” said Hon. J. G. Coates in the course of his address last evening. “And there seems to be a few of them here to-night,” he added, gazing in the direction of his interjectors. THE MAX IX BLUE . . . “It’s an extraordinary thing that whenever I get my critics before me they have nothing to say,” said Hon. J. G. Coates last evening. “Whenever I get them here ” “The police make them shut up.! ” called an interjector. TALK OF TORIES Mr. G. C. Munns, United candidate, got into an argument with a questioner who declared that the Liberals had always voted with the Tories and

that the Uniteds would do the same. If it had not been for a Tory City Council the transport measures would have been all right, said this member of the audience. “The fact remains.” said the candidate. “tltat the Tory Government and the Tory City Council voted our j?ort away, and that Labour helped them.” * * * A DUMPING GROUND. If you allow free trade in New Zealand you will make this country the dumping ground of every industrial country outside the British Empire—sweated labour and all. —Hon. J. G. Coates at the Town Hall last evening. * * * WHISPERING CAMPAIGN “If there is ofie organisation in this country that has gone out of its way to engage in the whispering campaign, it is the P.P.A.” —Mr. J. A. Lee at Mr. Anderton’s meeting last evening. INCOMPETENT ? Could an incompetent Government govern the country during the depression we have experienced and bring it through with credit?” asked Hon. J. G. Coates in the Town Hall last evening.

He added that to assess the debt at so much for each person was not the way to look at the situation. It had to be remembered that 70 per cent, of the ordinary debt paid its own interest and the balance was on roads, schools, hospitals, etc.