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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 97, 6 August 1873, Page 2

w ALL ixv ..d ATTENTION TO NEW & SEASONABLE GOODS '3USTUNP AC K E D !

FO K S A Jj E, Ex Coronet', from Lyttelton, ANE THOUSAND BUSHELS OATS, fir.tClass Sample 17 Tons Wood’s FLOUR, in sacks, 100’g and 50's 30 Sacks BEi". THOMAS WKIGLEY.

NOTICE. qpHE BAFFLE of the HAGUE WATCH will positively take place THIS EVENING, at the Masonic Hotel, at 8 o’clock. Members are requested to be punctual.

FOR SALE. FIRST CLASS SEED OATS. FIRTH WRIGLEY, Bay o f Plenty Store.

the Free and Independent Electors of the Tauranga District.

GENTLEMEN, —The time is fast approaching at which you will be called upon to elect a settler as your representative in the Provincial Council. Being a CANDIDATE for that honourable position, it becomes my duty to place before you the views I hold on the large public questions at present occupying the attention of ail thinking men in the colony. I feel, however, the impossibility of etfecting this object thoroughly in a newspaper address. I shall, therefore, in due course, request your attendance at Public Meetings, in order that I may fully exprrss my opinions and answer auy questions you may thinkproper to ask me. And, futther, I shall personally wait upon the electors at their houses, and, in short, do all in my power to thoroughly ventilate the ail absorbing topics of the day, prominent among which I may name the Native Question, Pubhc Works, Immigration, Education, Provincialism, not omitting the general interests of the district to which I have the honor to belong. My opinions on the Education Act, 1872,1 laid before you at the meeting I convened on the 30th of January last for the purpose of discussing the Act ; and 1 will, therefore, at present, briefly state that, if elected, I shall strongly advocate the repeal of the rating clause as it at'preaent stands. I sincerely trust, however, that the question of education will be grappled with during the present session of the General assembly, and one system adopted for the entire colony. As regards Provincialism, X cannot fail to recognise the truly lamentable condition to which this province has beau redu* ed, mainly, 1 am of opinion, through want of accord between the Provincial Government and the Ministry of the day. If elected, I shall have no desire to bolster up a possibly effete and expiring system, but rather to give my assistance in devising something better to take its place. lam of opinion that the Borough and County system—that is, local self-government, with the control of all local funds—would be found beneficial: provided always —and I trust I shall be distinctly understood on this point —that the supreme control be left, as at present, entirely in the hands of the General Government of the colony. In conclusion, Gentlemen, I beg to assure you that, if elected to represent you, I stall jealously watch the expenditure, and no exertions on my part shall be wanting to obtain Jor this district its fair share of the public funds.

I am, Gentlemen, Very faithfully yourp, E. M. EDGCUMBE, The Euoll, August 2, 1873.

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