ELECTION MEETINGS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 47, 8 November 1946, Page 5

ELECTION MEETINGS

BAY OF PLENTY CANDIDATES

MR BOORD AT EDGECUMBE

Mr J. Newdick, president of

the Bay of Plenty Representa- ' tive Committee, presided at a meeting of over 120 persons in the Edgecumbe Hall last Tuesday night to hear the Labour - candidate for the Bay of Plenty electorate, Mr Raymond Boord. The audience gave the speaker an attentive and uninterrupted hearing when he spoke of the Government’s achievements in the past and its future policy. Covering a wide field, Mr Boord laid particular stress upon the necessity of retaining import controls in their present form. At the conclusion of the meeting a vote of confidence in the candidate and the Government was moved by Mr H. King and seconded by Mr W. Chitham, and carried without dissent. “If any member of the Opposition, from Mr Holland down, can indicate to the Government an overseas source of tyre supply which is already not tapped, the Minister of Finance will be only too willing to issue immediately new licences for their purchase,” said Mr Boord in an address to ladies at Edgecumbe Hall. “As so'on as-sufficient tyres can be obtained to supply the needs of the country, rationing will end,” he said. In the meantime, he continued, rationing, had to be maintained to ensure a fair distribution of such supplies as they became available. Mrs %». Jesperson presided oyer the meeting, which gave Mr Boord an attentive hearing as he spoke of the achievements of the Government and of its plans for the future.

MR W. SULLIVAN’S MOVEMENTS

TO A' TOA AND WAIOEKA MEETINGS

Continuing his election campaign, the National candidate for the Bay of Plenty, Mr W. /Sullivan, addressed three meetings in the Whakatane district on Tuesday. The first meeting in the afternoon at Toa Toa was attended by a good gathering of electors, and. Mr Sullivan mainly confined his address to questions and answers. By this method a wide variety of subjects was dealt with. ■ . Later in the afternoon, Mr Sullivan spoke to an attendance of over 70 Waioeka residents on the question of farmers’ stabilisation accounts. At the conclusion of his address a vote of thanks was moved by Mr Parr, and seconded by Mr McCallion.

Forestry Workers Addressed

In the evening Mr Sullivan addressed what he considered the most successful of the day, although the audience numbered only, 25. .. The meeting, was held in the Matahina Forest schoolhouse and the audience represented 80 pier cent, of the settlement’s population. Again Mr Sullivan covered a wide field which included the desirability of acquiring more heavy tractors for forest work. Mr Sullivan stressed that heavy machinery of this type was imported from the United States, and that present control and supply shortages would not allow expansion. He said that the National Party would make every effort to increase the imports of such machines, which were badly needed throughout the country. After the meeting the speaker expressed his surprise at the sound grip on current affairs that the forestry workers had. ■ Questions that had been asked of him from the floor included such abstruse subjects as the stei'ling funds in Britain and some of the finer points in international finance.

'At the conclusion of the meeting a unanimous vote of confidence in the candidate and his party was passed. . \