PRE-SESSIONAL ADDRESS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 16 June 1914, Page 6

PRE-SESSIONAL ADDRESS

BY. MR, H,'' M» CAMPBELL, M.P,' ' „ • Napier, Jwo 15. Mr. H. M. Oappbcll, member for Hawke's Bay, delivered. * address to a largo meeting r.{ elec'Sore at Hastings to-nigh*, all the seats, in the thcatro bei-fig nlle'd. R : eferring, t<j tho Liberal eaftdidate opposed to Mm, Mr. Campbell said it had lieu.ii suggested that since ho started; oat mi. a. political campaign he haxf mad:e a pejsottal a&* tack on Dr. M l 'Jmu. (A vtyiw: So vim have!) Mr. Campbell Said be'had <fifte. nothing of tho kind, He had attacked' him politically, a;nd' it was impessfb'Te to speak of the land, laws ol the Dominion without referring-to Dr. M'Nao, whoso land policy was, in his opinion, detrimental to fho eouirtry. . He' (Mr. Campbell, had been told by a jiuraber of his friends that at his Msngiirfcorete-ro meeting his remarks hsd es-Bvey&l theimpression that ©r« M'N'ah- had taW ah active part ia obtaining an Council legalising the sale of the freehold in tho Mokau Estate. "I had no intention of making that suggestion, and I willingly withdraw the imputatian that Dr. M'Nab had: anything to do with getting, tho Qr-derMtt-Cfltinoil." Coninuing. Mr. Campbell was .given a good hearing. These- wfete many interjections and Ijjs replies wefe- mainly to the point, Much of his speech was do*voted to refuting the statements of tie "Hying squadron," At. the csijcJusfon of tho address a rate of thank* was moved, and oil being put by tiro Mayor the "Ayes" did not raise- their voices," while tho Opp^ition'tsts'present, sent-out a vociferous "No," and oft the strength of lunj; power the motion, was overwhelmingly defeated," though the ohaif-' man did not declare otto wav oi? the other.