THE ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 290, 3 September 1919, Page 8

THE ELECTIONS

! WAIRAEAPA SEAT. i. • <,-.'■■ ,, Vy : •■,-.■ Mr. • C Dankhy has held live meetings in the Wairarapa electorate,, openin? at Martinboruugh, and following on - ' «it°Greyfowu, Cross Creek, Feathereton, and'Carterton. The- candidate advocated ■ frw insurance by the State of every child •born in the Dominion for -S100; a State- ' - Bank of Issue and general business on '- the plan of the Commonwealth Bant or Australasia; nationalising coal mines by taking over all live mines at a lair, .price, "and-carrying all our own coal in Btate-owried bottoms. Land in large estates should. ba viewed with the into: tion of finding'what. arei\s are useful for closer 'settlement, and that owners be offered "a , "fair price for them.. Should , they not be- willing to stO, or use them iin to their full , productive value, they be taxed at a rate that the owners will be made to use them or let someone else use them: The powers-of local govern- »' ing Iwliea should be widened, so as to alter-'the -present" regulations, in the . direction of 'Government assistance, and ' -that they may offer market value tor loans for public works, or the Govern/'went guarantee such loans. He fully . approved of Mr. Parry's hydro-electric ' ' -policy as showu in his reports, and hoped that there would bo no cheese-paring and accepting of "somo just aa good scheme, that might ha a little cheaper. Ho hoped, that the policy in reference to our returned soldiers and • their dependants .would be such that, the boys and girls v, ho served us over'the water in the ' Ms war would never be! sorry for ha.vnw done so. -All State industries should be run in tho interest of the people, and tot in the interest.of the politicians for '■ the time being, or their friends, local , matters were referred to by the candiI date,, and many questions asked ana nneweired. ' LABOTJE MEETING AT LOWERThere was a good attendance .-in the Lower Hutt Town Hall Inst evening, to ' hear'the Labour candidate for the Hutt ; district (Mr. Pritchard) givo his views. Mr. Pritchard criticised and condemned the National Government. He also referred to' Sir Joseph Ward's recent man), festo. The proposal contained in the manifesto that, as a mark of appreciation of the services of tho women ffl New Zealand during the war, women should be granted full political rights, was a most insidious one. Mr. Pritchard outlined at some length the various planks in the platform-of the Labour Party. Eeferring to the question of a State bank he disagreed with the Liberal proposal' that the Bank of Now Zealand should be bought out. The Post Offico r ' Bank, ho thought, should be made a « ch'etrao bank. He referred to the great success of the State Bank in tlie Commonwealth of Australia. At the con- '■■-. elusion of 'his remarks, . Mr, Pritchard was accorded a vote of thanks, carried by acclamation. The Hon, J, T, Paul aiiel Mrs. Beck also spoke on. various 1 questions. : Mr. W. Carrol Harloy has announced hie intention of contesting tho Nelson seat at the forthcoming , election. !Mr. .Hurley is 'a native of Nelson, and is a • . solicitor by profession. He served as n. ' captain with tlie. Now Zealand Expedi- ' tionary .Force, nnd since his r,elurn has taken" interest in the affairs of ■ ■■'■ tho Returned Soldiers' Association, of trhich he occupies the position of presi' dent. ■ . ■ Mr;' E. C. Banks, of Matiunatn, and (Airman of the Auckland Education , Board, has announced that ho will bo a earididite for the Eotorua seat, ijtandlug ■'■■•. (is au Independent.-