MR. HOLLAND'S WADESTOWN MEETING.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 123, 16 February 1918, Page 8

MR. HOLLAND'S WADESTOWN MEETING.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Your acoount of Mr. Holland's Wadestown meeting is hardly fair to the residents of Wadest-own You state that the audience was "fairly large" and "he was given a quiet hearing." The meeting was the largest of its kind ever seen in Wadestown, the hall being packed to the doors, and a considerable number were unable to_ gain admission. Mr. Holland's denunciation of the administration of the Government was received in a most enthusiastic manner. The meeting was a clear indication that the feeling in that part of the electorate is dead against the National Government.—3. am, etc., l'. PARLANE, Chairman of the Meeting. Cecil Road, Wadestown, February 15, 1918.

[Tlio ( meeting was held in a small church schoolroom, and ■ though the audience filled the room the total number of people present was comparatively small. The term used by our reporter, "a fairly large audience," fairly described it. The fact that a good number of those present caught the town-bound car aftor the meeting rather suggests that a section of the audience was not Wadestoivn, residents, but supporters of Mr. Holland who had oome from other parts to swell the- attendance.]

Mr. J. P. Luke will address the electors of Northland at the Methodist Schoolroom on Tuesday evening. Mr. A. de B. Brandon will speak on Monday at St. Paul's Schoolroom, Tinakori R-oad, on Wednesday at the Masonic Hall, Boulcott Street, and on Thursday at Northland; School. Mr. H. E. Holland will address meetings during next week as follow Monday, Northland, Methodist Schoolroom, 8 p.m.; Tuesday, Methodist Schoolroom, Molesworth Street, 8 p.m.; Thursday, St. Paul's Schoolroom, Tinakori Road, 8 p.m.; Friday, Masonic Mall, Boulcott Street, 8 p.'m. Openair meetings in support of Mr. Holland's candidature will be held in tlio Post Office Square each day next week at noon. A series of open-air meetings in connection with the Labour campaign in support of Mr. Holland will bo held to-night at Dixon Street, Boubott Street, Hawkestono Street, and Lcwisville Terrace, and will Le addressed as advertised by well-known Labour speakers. A meeting of Mr. Holland's Election Committee is to-be held to-day in the committeo room, Crown Theatre Buildings, Molesworth Street, at 2 p.m.