POLITICAL ADDRESS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1213, 23 August 1911, Page 6

POLITICAL ADDRESS.

THE WELLINGTON NORTH SEAT

About forty electors attended the mealing heid by Dr. A. W. hard (Ministerial candidate for Wellington North) last evening at Northland. Mr. L. George occupied the chair.

Dr. Izard addressed the meeting oa much £ho same lines as ou lormcr occasions. Ho said he was in line with the policy recently laid down by a Minister of tho Crown, which could bo summed up in the word "access"—access to lauds with security of tenure; access to capital, with the assistauo of tho State;.access to the various means of transport; justice unimpeded by poverty or avoidable delays; access to insurance; to free education. These wero tho ideals tho Liberal party had striven tor, and wero i striving for to-day. Tho legislation, I I since tho present Government had ban in power, bad been legislation by men imbued with Liberal ideas. lie had challenged his opponent to state winch measures of the Liberal parly he would re-

: pcai it iii power, but lie hrul had no J /?>/>;>/■ jeS. yfyr J/,-/// p/vgrestcc/ tindir ( U\o Liberal Govornriuml, ;uu\ up \o the ' prcsant had been shown no reason why | they should change. Ho repeated in detail his views ou wlucutkUi. "fret, secular, and compulsory." lie advocated a railway commission to go thoroughly into the question of railway construction. Until this-policy was adopted it would bo impossible to look for the complete opening up of the country. Ho advocated tho leasehold tenure of Crown lands not already disposed of. He would not allow the national endowments to go. The natural sources of power should bo nationalised. He urged the advisability of municipal control of milk, to keen it up to its full standard. Ho hoped Wellington's example in Ihis respect, would be followed throughout the country. Ho outlined a schemo for medical relief in indigent, .cases, and a system cf additional maternity hospitals, town-planning, and further recreation grounds. He asserted that tho.Government had legislated for all classes of the community, but for no particular class at the expense of anothpr. He advocated the old age pension for women, in some cases, at 10 years. Ho concluded with > reference tc (he finances of the, country and the of tho public debt, which was productive. Ho would stand to support a constructive T/il>oral Government ngnimt a destructive Opposition, and a'kea his hearers tc vote for progressive Libfralism. ' A vote of thanks and confidence was ( accorded (he candidate, on the m.-.tiou of Mr. Hi chard sen, seconded by Mr. C. Gill.