PERSONAL BUBBLES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 261, 6 December 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL BUBBLES.

H. IAN SIMSON.

(To the* Editor.) Sir .—I have in front of me a letter from a gentleman who should be the Premier of New Zealand (if he had my brains) thanking me for the active oai-t I took in the Waipawa election* and as his letter is not private or personal I have no kesitation xn letting vou know the contents and my answer, My action in supporting the- Reform aandidate in the Waipawa Eiection was purely personal. I had no confidence in the United Party s candidate and was sorry to see him successful. This gentleman trusts xn his letter that his party will have my active suppoit in the future. This is my answer, Mr Editor: I will snpport any narty or leader that can show me an honelst way out of the qnagmire tliat New Zealand politics and the vtorid s parliaments have drifted mto, and. tne time was never more opportune, for a Dic-k Seddon to arise, even if he m , called by some other naxne. It ttf^ men in power -would rise to the. oeca» sion, P would give them my support. Would I join a company with a maiy aging direetor wlio had no brains tq carry out the company's affairs to .a successful issue? Yes, I might if |I tliought there was a chance of spoxfts to tlio victors. On tlie« other hard, if I were in power I might even cqnviuce them that my ideas were sotfUd and they would follow xny thqught. 'An present I am qnly a voice in the wilderness. Let Coates, Ransom or Holhind force this position and people will rise up and answer "Well done! ' And having a self-supporting country , • we shoxild have prosperity.— I am, etc ,

Independent Lodge, r Hastings, Dec. 5, ;1930,