TWO OLD RIVALS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 724, 25 July 1929, Page 8

TWO OLD RIVALS

SOME LIVELY RALLIES

MR. JONES AND MR. ATMORE

(THE SUE'S Parliamentary -Hcportej^ PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Wed. As is usual with two old rivals in debate across the floor of tie House, there were some lively exchanges between Mr. D. Jones and the Minister of Education, the Hon. H. Atmore. in the Address-in-Reply debate tonight. Mr. Jones had characterised Mr Atmore as the so-called strong man of the party, who had been weak in dealing with a reply to a question from Canterbury asking for a decisiba on junior high schools. Mr. Jones said a reply had been promised a few weeks ago, and had not been yet. Mr. Atmore returned to the attack with vim. Mr. Jones, he said, was a genius for misrepresentation, and an artist in half truths. He was such a genius for misrepresentation that no constituency would have him more than once. He was well known in New Zealand for misrepresentation from the time he was Reform organiser and petty tricks began to disfigure politics. Mr. Jones: I knew- you would say that. Mr. Atmore: lam going to call the bluff of the hon. member, if he says the United Party is inimical to the in. terest of the country, why doesn't ha move a motion of no confidence? Mr. Jones: We’ll do our business in our own way. Mr. Atmore said that Mr. Jones worked underground. He then quoted the lines of Bracken about “stunted minds.” Mr. Jones: Is that from Burns or Shakespeare?

Mr. Atmore passed over the remark, and said that he would pass to mora pleasant things and proceeded ia deal w-ith unemployment.