ON THE HUSTINGS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 51, 24 November 1919, Page 8

ON THE HUSTINGS

WEEK-END SPEECHES

THE OTAKI SEAT

Mr. W. IT. Field, M.P., addressed a largo meeting at the Normandalo School on Saturday evening. The ■ attendance included several olectors from Potono and Koro Koro. Mr. Field read the following extract from tho "Morning Post," which lie urged his hearers to weigh carefully at tho present critical period of our history :—' Civil strife is a poor wreath to lay on the graven of tho dead. Class hatred is a sorry monument to erect to their memory. High tasks await us. Wo have- titanic work to do. Each of us must play his part in the effort that is needed to build the commonwealth.'' Mr. Field answered a largo number of questions, and was accorded a hearty vote of tbauks.. WELLINGTON "siiißS CAMPAIGN ME. DUNBAR SLOANE AT NEWLANDS. Mr. Dunbar Sloane, Liberal candidate, addressed the electors at is'ewlnnds on Saturday night. Tho sneaker advocated the establishment of a State hank, but stressed the vital necessity of tho Government securing the services of the best bankers in the country to lay tho foundation. Accessibility of tho small man to proper banking facilities was the great advantngo that would accrue from a Stnto banking system, not to mention tho fostering and encouraging of our secondary industries. Whilst, said tho speaker, many of our leading politicians lind an open'mind on the question of State coal mines he was convinced that tho only way to settle the present difficulties was for the State to come in and tako control. Good living and housing accommodation for the miners would result, and the establishment of a sound superannuation scheme would eliminate to a great measure the present labour difficulties. People in this country were holding land valued by tho Government at from ,£ls to .£3O an acre, and selling the same at .£BO, ■890, and ,£l2O an aero. Tho speaker said the Government should send through tho country an army of valuers, and at once put the valuation of land on a .sound basis, and tax the holders accordingly. On the land question, Mr. S'.oane paid he took no exception to anyone holding a good slice of land providing the holder was producing tho maximum from the land, but land that was not doing so should and must bo subdivided. Mr. Sloane was accorded a, voto of thanks.

.THE OAMARU SEAT Br Telottranh— Preeo Atioclatlon. Dunedin, November 23. Mr. Macpherson, Liberal candidate for the Oamaru seat, addressed a wellattended meeting of the electors of Palmerston South on Friday evening. Discussing the policies issued by Sir Joseph Ward and the Prime Minister, he said there was not a grea't difference between them. Ho favoured the Liberal leader because ho was backed by a record of forty yearn. Discussing land legislation ho showed that tinkering , Eeformers were responsible for aggregation on an alarming scale. Ho condemned the muddling and bungling of the Government in connection with renewal of the contracts with tho Imperial Government. Mr. Massey'a failure had left the producers without a market or a, place to put their produce. Largo coir.bines of merchants were responsible for the cost of living, which would never be reduced until they did away with thesp criminal monsters. Tho wheat question had been bungled through lack of business methods. Ho favoured tho concentration of public works to complete main lines. CANDIDATES' MEETINGS. Dr. Newman will address the electors of Hataitai in tho Bowling Green Pavilion to-morrow, and at the Ivilbirnio State School on Friday. Dr. Newman invites all ladies desirous of his re-elec-tion to meet him at his committee rooms, 9 Cambridge Terrace, on Thursday, at 8 p.m. Tho Labour candidate for the Eutt seat, Mr. D. K. Pritch.ird, will address the electors in tho Eastbourno Hall tonight. Mr. E. P. Bishworth, tho Beform nominee for the Hutt seat, will address the electors in the Lower Hutt Town Hall on Thursday. Hβ invites all his lady supporters to meet him at his committee room, in Roll and Jf'Karn's Buildings, Lower Hutt. on Tuesday, at 3 p.m. Mr. L. M'Konzie invites friends and supporters to meet him at his residence, Dufforin Street, to-night, at'B o'clock. The Hon. D. 11. Guthrie's election meetings this week will be held to-day at Mangaweka, to-morrow at Ohingaiti, at Rata on Wednesday, and at Huiitervillo on Thursday.

Mr. Dunbar Sioano will address the electors in tho Methodist Hall to-night, and in the Khnndnllnh Hall to-morrow.

Mr. R. A. Wright and Mr. AV. H. Field, both Beform members of Parliament, will address electors at the Ohariu Hall to-night. Mr. AVright will givo an address in tho Northland Methodist Schoolroom to-morrow, and in tho clubroom, Pitt Street, AVadestown, oi Friday. Mr. Field is due to address a meeting in tho Porirua Hull to-morrow, and on Thursday in the Century Hall, Levin.

Mr. H. Oakley Browne opens his campaign for the Wellington North, soat in tho Sydney Street Schoolroom on Wednesday. His friends and supporters aro asked to moot him in his litnin committee room, No. 10 Woodward Street, at 8 o'clock to-night. Mr. J. P. Luke will address the electors in the Masonic Hall, Boulcott Street, next Friday, and in the Kelburn Kiosk to-morrow week.

Mr. Fred. Pirani advertises meeting os follow:—To-night, at 8, Aro Street Mission Hall; to-morrow night, at 8, Marion Street Hall, for friends and supporters only; Thursday nipht, at 8, Alexandra Hall. Abel Smith Street.

The Labour Party's meetings announced to-day are:—Mr. ,T. IVad (Wellington North) and Mr. P. Frnjer (Central)'will address the electors at St. Paul's Schoolroom. Tinakori Road, to-nigM; M-. 11. Semple will speak at St. Tlunnns'e Hall to-night. Mr. J. M'Xonzio (Otati) will speak at Akatarawn. at 2 p.in. and Mangaroa at S p.m, to-day.