EDEN SEAT.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 9 April 1926, Page 10

EDEN SEAT.

ACTIVE CAMPAIGNING. By Telefe'raiiU—Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 7. As polling day approacnes Uie candidates jti tiio Fueii uy-eiectJon are conducting ti.eir campaigns with great activiiy. A feat are ut the contest is the cordiality or tlic receptions extended to Sir Janies Uunson, Uie olnciui Reform candidate. Speaking at i\ew Lynn, last night, Sir James Uunson reierred to a circular issued on uc'half of the Labour candidate in the contest. Tile circular first of ail said: “Tile issue is not what is the policy of Labour.” Sir James said lie ivould suggest that it was. Otherwise, what couid it be? It could not be a personal issue. He was going to make the issue one between the .Labour Party on the one hand and the Reform Government on the other. The circular further said : “The issue is constitutional government or Tory dictatorship.” Sir James asked whether Air Coates or.Mr Downie Stewart could be called Tories. They were born New Zealanders, wit'll all the activities and aims of young New Zealanders. And could lie nimself be called a Tory? The thing was ridiculous. At the bottom of the circular was tiie statement: “Vote the Labour candidate and increase the power of opposition.” U'hac earthly good was that to the people of Eden? asked Sir James, who added that this was apparently all the policy the Labour Party could put forward. He then said that the people of Eden had to determine whether they were prepared to give Mr Coates a renewal of the confidence they expressed at the General Election, when tlie emergence of a Government able to function in tb c best interests of the countiy was welcomed with sonic relief. If Eden did not return the official Government candidate, tho Labour Party would be justified in saving that the electorate had given a vote of no-corfidence in the Coates Government.

There is a. prospect of more interest being infused into the campaign within‘the next few days'. The Prime Minister is expected to arrive on Monday, and to conduct a series of meetings’ for the last three days of the campaign. Mr Holland, leader of the Labour Party, is also about to visit Auckland to assist Air Mason, his first meeting being fixed for Friday evening.