CHALMERS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1292, 22 November 1911, Page 8

CHALMERS.

MR, CLARK AT MOSGIEL. (By TclcgrapU-Prcss Association.) Ouncdin. November 21. Speaking at Mosgiel, Mr. Clar'fe fa-s----oured an elective executive, the abolition of Hansard, rcuucji.g tho Legislative Council by half if it could not be abolished. He would increase the graduated land tax till landowners were compelled to sell at a reasonable price. Hal'.', a million ought to be taken off the Customs and placed on tho shoulders of '.hose with large estates and large incomes. In the Arbitration Court, the Judge should always be assisted by representatives' of the particular trade interested. Be preferred to grant tho freehold at present-day values, but opposed interference with national endowments. The Government had erred in passing an Order-in-Council by which Mokau passed into'the bands ot speculators. ■ It would have been better for the State to have p'.irchrsod. Tho railways were being worked en wrong lines; children should bo carried free for live years, and school child) en should not be classed as .men. The. railways should bo run at bare cost. He intended to bring in a,Bill making it compulsory for doctors to give gratuitous attendance in country districts, no matter what the individual circumstances wore, the State recouping the medico for any\ actual loss. Mr. Clark received a vote of confidence.