POST-SESSIONAL ADDRESSES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3700, 25 May 1883, Page 3

POST-SESSIONAL ADDRESSES.

Tnvkiicviuum,, This clay. Mr H. Eoldwick, M.11.R. for thu InveroiU'""ill district, addressed a .second meeting of the'electors ufc North Invcrcargill lust uMit, About fifty were present. In the course of his address Mr Feldwick denied having , changed lii.s views on the education question. Had it arisen at the election he would have' answered that one-seventh of the people of New Zealand, many of tliero

of the poorer classes, had to pay for the education of their own children, and at the same time contribute through taxation towards the support of the State schools, which they did not, as a matter of conscience, use. It had not been made a party question either at the election or afterwards in the House. The principal objection to Mr Tyke's bill was that tho present Education Act was a settled thing. Now, he had a very short political creed ; it was the o-oldeu rule, and were he a Roman Catholic he would feel that he had no right to pay for the education of his own children and bo taxed for that of other He did not wish to examine into the motives of his antagonists at the previous meeting, but he thought this question was asked for purposes. At the olo*e of his addres.s_ it was moved and seconded that Mr Fcldwick be thanked for his speech, but an amendment to the effect that the meeting express implicit confidence in him, and concurred with his views on the education question, was ultimately carried.