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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 68, 13 December 1919, Page 23

ELECTION NOTICES. WAIPAWA The LIBERAL Candidate A. E. JULL ■i 1 • recognition of his abilj improvement work, ''and thus thera Chairman of li°dy holds wou ' l 0 mor ® s tt^B ®®d under permanOne of tho strongest and soundest planks in Mr. Jull's platform is "Closer Settlement." He believes that the salvation of this country lies in increased production, but that increased production is unattainable to the desired extent without a drastic policy of compulsory sub-division. He instances the success which attended tho efforts of the Liberal party in this direction by acquiring and sub-dividing such estates as Hatumn, Lindsay, Argyll, Elsthorpe, and others. These were opened up under such easy conditions that those settlers who were successful at have all "made good.!' He suggests as the basis.for the compulsory acquisition of large estates, what they have produced over a given period Qf years, not what they aro capablo of producing. - . . . Oilier planks in Mr. Jull's'platform arc better treatment, for the soldier'set tier and the soldier who does not hanker after a farming life '; the prosecution of the most essential railway works to a point at which tliey will become of soni e service to the country, instead of the present system- of frittering away publio 'money by adding one or two miles each year to sixteen or seventeen lines; the development of hydro-electricity, which' will make for better conditions of home life in the country and stimulate production; an entire remodelling of our education system'by placing all branches of education under ono board of control ir. each of the four university centres, and all school requisites to be free. , Mr. Jull puts forward ,a stroiig plea on behalf of the Liberal party as th e party standing between two extreme sections. As the people's party it stands for tho greatest good for tho greatest number. Its policy steers a middle course between reactionary methods and stagnation, a course along the lines of sound progross. In assisting the development of that policy Mr. Jull will be able to bring to bear the ripe experience of many years of administrative work and of a thorough business training, and his election as the member for Waipawa will very materially strengthen the ranks of New Zealand's legislators. Mr. Jull contends that the present method of settling soldiers on_ the land largely by the purchase of small isolated .properties, and tho fact that no' civilian settlement of Government land is going on, forccs all persons desirous of acquiring land on to a restricted market. The result is that the Government, being in the market as a new competitor for privately owned lands, are chiefly responsible for the inflated values which are now existing, Mr. Jull's remedy is,tho acquisition of large estates, and the simultaneous setting aside of cenain areas for civilian settlement. The most vital need of the producers to-day, Mr. Jull considers, is. the questioi of providing shipping by the State, as at present 'New Zealand is practically at the mercy of an outside shipping combne. In addition to the matter of space and freights is the discrimination which can be made, in the time of lifting different shippers' cargo. No effective control of the Meat Trust can, in Mr. Jull's opinion, be given without control of the shipping, i Vole Early on Wednesday

MASTBRTON The INDEPENDENT REFORM Candidate - m- B/' matheson ; MR MATHESON'S CAREER. William Brooklyn Matlieson was born in the year 1861 a t Nottingham,, England, anc[ receive;! his schooling in that town. In 1874 lie went to America and was employed as an office boy in New York until 'T7, wlicn-he returned to England and took up the study of mechanical engineering. ■ The year 1883 found him an extra engineer on the s.s. ''Doric," which was making her first trip to New Zealand. A week after his arrival in this colony the young engineer obtained work on a • station, and five years later secured a, section of 140 acres situuted in the Forty-Mile Hush area. After thirty years of labour Mr. Matlieson still retains this land, now the centre of that flourishing' district, of which Ekotahuna is the outlet. Mr. Matlieson has always taken a keen interest in the affairs of his locality, being prominently connected with such bodies as school committees, the Fanners' Club, and the Farmers' Union—he is now vice-president of the Wellington ( Province, having; been appointed for the second time. Among other activities, Mr. Matlieson is chairman of the Committee of Friends' Hostel for students in Wellington, and also represented the farmers of the Wairarapa on the Mangahao Hydro-Electric League. His connection with matters patriotic dates from the time when he was chairman of the local Efficiency Board Trustees, and though that body is now disbanded, his continued interest in the welfare of tile soldiers is evidenced by the fact that he is on the Executive of the -Wairarapa Patriotic Association. I'll the past Mr. Matlieson was active in the promotion of co-operative dairying. He was a member of Mr. Seddon's Land Commissio.u, and opposed on the public platform the late Hon. Dr. McNab's Land Bill. Vote MATHESON in for Mastertoia