THE HUSTINGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 511, 14 November 1928, Page 8

THE HUSTINGS

BRAINY M.P.’s “I will vote for an increase in the salaries of members o£ Parliament. If you get brains you must expect to pay for them.”—Mr. F. J. Lysnar at St. Matthew’s Hall last evening. BIBLES AND BAYONETS It is nonsense to waste time talking about the Bible-in-schools the way things are. They propose to train young men with a Bible in one hand and a bayonet in the other. —Mrs Paterson, Independent Labour candidate for Grey Lynn.

WOMEN AND FINANCE “They say women know nothing about finance,” remarked Mrs. Paterson, Independent Labour candidate for Grey Lynn, last evening. “Look at all the money Mrs. Young got by charging for admittance to her meeting at Wellington. You can’t tell me that she knows nothing about finance.” CAN’T GO WRONG Discussing the United Party's borrowing proposal at his meeting at Georgetown, Mr. S. M. Macalister, Reform candidate for Invercargill, likened it to the popular jazz song about “Fifty Million Frenchmen Can’t go Wrong.” “It appears,” remarked Mr. Macalister, amid laughter, “that seventy million sovereigns can’t go wrong.” * * * NOT SATISFIED “The Government has done more for Auckland than for any other part of New Zealand, and yet you howl about it. You would never be satisfied.” —Mr. F. J. Lysnar at St. Matthew’s Hall last evening. BETTER WITHOUT PAY “Honoraria to members of Parliament should be cut out altogether,” said Mr. J. J. Clark, Independent Reform candidate for Wellington East, at Seatoun last evening. “I am prepared to go into the House without any honararium at all. I know I won’t be

at all popular, but my firm belief is that if the honoraria were done away with you would set better representatives in Parliament. (Laughter.) At any rate, if you want to economise and can get others to think the same way, there is one way of doing it. ★ * * ADVOCATES BOOKMAKERS “The only way you will get clean racing is to have bookmakers—but have them under control. Mr. F. J. Lysnar at St. Matthew’s Hall last evening. CLASSES IN HOSPITALS “No Labour Party,” said Mr. C. H. Chapman, Labour candidate for \\ ellington Suburbs, “stands for class distinction in our hospitals. During the past two or three years a movement, fostered by certain members of the British Medical Association, lias grown to introduce into our hospitals a system known as the private wards system. By that is meant the right of patients to be treated in hospital by private practitioners and to pay their own fees. There is not the slightest doubt that if this is permitted there will arise a feeling, right or wrong, that the best in the public hospital is for those who pay the highest fees and something else for those who cannot afford to pay such fees.” QUITE DEFINITE “I will vote for Coates every time on a no-confidence motion, because 1 am a Coates-ite.” —Mr. F. J. Lysnar at St. Matthew’s Hall last evening. SWAPPING HORSES r i The United Party has some very funny ideas about swapping horses in mid-stream, said Mr. J. A. Flesher, candidate for Mid-Ctanterbury the other day. Sir Joseph Ward was Prime Minister once, but he did not last long. The Mackenzie Government came into being and Sir Joseph Ward was relegated to a subordinate position. After the break-up of the National Cabinet, Sir Joseph Ward again went to the country as leader of the Liberals. Then Mr. Wilford was chosen as leader, anil after that Mr. Forbes. After Mr. Forbes had been leader for a few years, they turned him down, and now the Liberals are going back to the old Gloaming, Sir Joseph Ward. You might as well expect Mr. Greenwood to take Gloaming from the paddock and race him against Limerick. Sir Joseph Ward was practically forced out of leadership, and now they ar,e trying to re-condition him and win the Parliamentary stakes. DOMINION S DEFENCE “The day of land training has passed. We should devote all our attention to air defence and submarines.”—Mr. F. J. Lysnar at St. Matthew’s Hall last evening. # * * A SUPERNUMERARY “There is one man concerned with the Government of New Zealand who does not represent a single elector. For 17 years he has been a supernumerary digit in New Zealand politics. Sir Francis Bell has had too much to do with the politics of this Dominion. . . . The trouble is not so much with Coates as with the over Coates.”—A few of Dr. W. H. Horton’s remarks when he presided over Mr. J. B. Donald’s meeting at Scots Hall last evening.