AFTER MANY YEARS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1510, 5 August 1912, Page 6

AFTER MANY YEARS.

EPOCH-HAW CONFERENCE OPENS. 1 / CELEBRATING THE VICTORY. BEIARKABLE SCENES OF ENTHUSIASM j DOMINION ORGANIBATTON PLANNED.

i The greatest /political - convention ever ;'■ held ,in. N«w'Zealand, opened.in the Syel- ;'■ ney Street. Schoolroom on Saturday morn- .:■ ing. Delegates came from every European electorate in the. Dominion, the total ; Attendance being over 150. The.proceedings were opened by the Prime Minister, '.'■': ' -\vlio is .president of tho Political Reform ' league. His reception by the delegates was most,enthusiastic. ,-.'.., ■ ■ A, report presented :(.o tho conference , briefly chronicled tho history of the lle- ■' form, Patty in Opposition, and outlined ;' tho organisation work accomplished duri",. . ing tho past few - months. Two committees ivere appointed, one with the very important'duty of constructing a, uniform' scheme of organisation i from. the.material supplied by the various' branches-of the League. Tho purpose of I this scheme, which is intended to bo car- ' . ried out throughout tho Dominion, is to consolidate tho popular support' of (he 1 Reform Party, and to secure the full and ; efficient "USO" of- tho strength .which the party lias gained in the country. The 1 conference continued its sittings all day |- on Saturday. '-.. ' -. ' . ' In the evening local, nn.d visiting members of the party, in : and- out of'Parlia- }'.■ jnont,. assembled at. the Sydney. - Street' ,'"• ■ Schoolroom, in order to' hold what Dr. M.P., aptly ./described recently as a : "joy : meeting.", Tho function could not.possibly havo been a-more.pronounced ■ ... success, than it was; '~" . . ' "■ ■ The conference will , Tcsnhie to-ilay, and : • .will .consider'the'recommendations *of the i committee on organisation. Several other '. : ' remits remain to bo considered and dis- '•' . cussed......' ~..'. ./. .'. - - ; . i . ...The conference will''culminate' in a j ■ great political demonstration in the Town I Hall ■ this ■evening. ■: Speeches are to ba delivered by the Hon. W. F. .Massey, the \ Hon.'Jas.' Alien," the Hon. W. H." Herj ' • lies;.-'{ho Hon. A. L. Herdman,..tho-Hon. I "P.. M.- 8.-Fisher,-'.Dr.' A. K. Newman, J M.P.. and Mr. W. H.D. 8011. M.P •'■ '. ' ,'r " ' . ' /