WELLINGTON NORTH

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 47, 19 November 1919, Page 8

WELLINGTON NORTH

MR. J. BEAD AT SYDNEY STREET. Mr. J. Read (Labour candidate for the Wellington North seat) addressed a meeting of electors in the Sydney Street Hall Inst evening Mr. M. Walsh presided wer si snnll attendance. Mr. Rend said that if only tlio busy people of the country realised that they must get together to make the country a Vappier one to live in the day would not be far distant when Hie Labour Party would be in power in Parliament. Accn'rdimj to the candidate, Uio_ National Government had been guilty of doing dastardly things. One of those dastardly tilings was the "infliction m>oll tlio people" of the Military Service Act. Them was., lie urged, no justification whatever for the measure. Mr. Head proceeded to deal in order ivith tlio plank* of the Labour Party's platform. Ifa declared himself a bcliovcr in a strong forestry policy. T,h? past negji"cncc of our Governments had brought nbnut a condition when wo were within oiirht of a timber famine. Millions of feet of limber had he™ ruthlessly destroyed in the past, and ranidly our h\\4\ «-ai disappearing from the face of ■New Zealand. To lovers of the native flora this was very..saddening, and ho was slfongly convinced . that we onelit In'conserve' largo tracts of our nativo bush for future generations, not as exilic reserves (although he desired the.-o Ion), lint ;\s nerinanent forests frnm which we could draw supplies of timber, and yet replant as opportunity Questioned 'at the end of his address) upon the manner of the "Recall," the c'Uidid-'te was reduced to claiming that the principle of the tliinp was sound, rh-Miuli its application was _ "rather diflifiilt." ' The parly had devised ;io machinery for putting the "Recall" into operation. , A vote of confidence in the canilulnto was carried.