THE HUSTINGS.

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 503, 5 November 1928, Page 8

THE HUSTINGS.

BUBBLE LOAN In the eyes of Mr. A. G. Osborne, Labour candidate for Waitemata, the £ 70,000,000 borrowing proposal of Sir Joseph Ward has passed through two bubble stages- To a Devonport audience on Saturday evening, Mr. Osborne said that the big loan had first loomed as a great golden bubble. People, he said, almost heard the sovereigns jingling. The bubble had since deteriorated into the “ordinary soapy variety.”

7ft rir rlr NONDESCRIPT UNITEDS The latest description of the United Party came from Mr. W. E. Parry, Labour candidate for Auckland Central, in his address at Eden Terrace on Saturday evening. “The Uniteds are a band of political nondescripts sheltering under the mantle of Sir Joseph Ward,” was how he dismissed the new party. The Labour candidate for Waitemata, Mr. A. G. Osborne, in his speech at Devonport on Saturday evening, offered for the approval of the

crowd this description of the Uniteds: “They are a conglomeration of political misfits.” * * * CONFIDENCE Mr. A. Harris?. Independent Reform candidate for IVaitemata, was asked on Saturday owning whether, in the event of his two political opponents polling 4,000 voteis each and himself 4,001, he would tlzftnk it right that he should be elected. The candidate replied that when ttao numbers went up the board would skiow Harris with 7,000 votes and possibly 2,000 and 1,000 votes for the other two candidates. * * * • RACING CLUBS “I have fixed viewy- cn that point. I think it is quite wrong that country clubs should come down to Auckland to hold their meetings. If they want race meetings, by all means let them have them on their own courses,” said Sir James Gunson at Titirangi on Saturday evening, in reply to a questioner who asked the- candidate if he thought the practice was being carried too far. * * % SHORT HEAD GOOD EjXOUGH “No,” said Mr. Fred Reform candidate for City Central. “I am not in favour of the bare majority in licence polls.” Why 501 people rule 500? “Mr. Lysnar,” shouted somebody, “would you take your seat Jif you got a one majority in this fighii-?” “Rather. A short head is good enough for me.” * m * A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK - . Questioned whether his scan had acted as a volunteer seamans during the shipping strike, Mr. Harris. Inde-pendent-Reform candidate for '{Yaitemata. said: “Yes. my son was one of the young men who manned the New Zealand ships when the sea rose n refused to carry our produce *to the other side of the world. I am. proud of him—he is a chip off the old block.” * m m AGE AND YOUTH He was a young questioner. “You stated that the GovernftTient was our business directorate—would you put a man 70 years of age aftt the head of a business directorate?’' he asked Mr. A. J. Stallworthy, United candidate for Eden, at his Dominion Road meeting. “A wider knowledge of business and of the vast contribution of matured brains to the world’s political and economic affairs would have made m\v young friend hesitate to ask such 41 question,” came the candidate’s reply. “I venture to prophesy that at 70, with the wisdom only years can bring, he will show more discretion.”