HUTT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1303, 5 December 1911, Page 8

HUTT.

• ME. SHORT AT KAITOKE. Reform party candidate for the Hutt scat, spoke at Kaitoke on Saturday evening. Before openin? his address, Mr. Short was accorded three hearty cheers. Mr.. Langridge occupied the chair. Mr. Short outlined the planks.of the Reform party, and pave a good fighhng speech. At the conclusion of Ins address the candidate was accord>r V, 0 , 1 ? of on the motion if Mr. Collie, seconded by Mr. V. Phillip,. T i 0 Coll f"' pn ce in the candidato was put by one ot the audienco; and seconded from several points of the hall at once. Mrs. Short was presented with a vorv beautiful bouquet. The chairman declared the vote of thanks and confidence carried unanimously. MR. REARDON AT KORO-KORO. Mr M, ,T Reardon, Labour candidate for the Hutt seat,.addressed a weM.aUemled meetins_of electors at Koro-Koro last evening. Jle was given an uninterrupted and attentive hearing. Touching upon t ie grievances of railway servants,'lie said that lie was now preparing a return which showed that the increases granted to railway servants last session did not make their wages equal to the minimum paid ior the various classes of work bv private employers in Wellington under ' Arbitration Court awards. Mr. Reunion undertook to give a full stato-veut of the at I etono on Wednesday evening. Almost ;ul trades, he added, were now working ■» or 4.) hours per week, but the Government was still keeping up U u . „ld iB-hour standari,. 1 lio. Amalgamated Society of Knilvciv Sorvnutf, wus nslcinp, in {\ onestion submitted to candidates, wh"tlior they, favoured a '18-hour week. In this demand the railwaymon were altopeilicr 100 modest. In n majority of trade's the standard hours of labour per week were below 4S, and the policy of the Labour party ,was an eight-hour day on five duvs in the week, and half n <inv's work on •Saturday—l-1 hour's per week "in all. Sir.' Reardon spoke on the lines of his previous addresses about the treatment of the labourers employed by the Wellington City Council at the hands of the present Mayor

and remarked that Mr.. Wilford found it necessary to introduce special pleaders from but-side to' help liini in his cumpaign. So much might ho gathered from u letter which had appeared ill tho "Post" that evening. In tlio latter part of his address Mr. Jleardon dealt' principally with tho effect of land speculation upon the rents paid by workers. Air. lteardon was unanimously accordod a vote of thanks and confidence.