COMING ELECTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 85, 11 April 1911, Page 2

COMING ELECTIONS.

CITIZENS' LEAGUE "TICKET." CITY.-, COUNCIL AND HARBOUR BOARD. j The Wellington Citizens' League met last evening in the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. H. C. Tewsley occupied the chair. There was an attendance of about fifty. The chairman's explanatory address is reported in another column. The meeting was held with the object of preparing a "ticket" for the municipal election. s Mr. A. S. Biss wrote, heartily commending the league's ideals. Mr. C. W. Tanner, speaking as an ex-member of the City Council, eaid that perhaps the merchants of Wellington had contributed somewhat to the present depressed state of affairs in I placing in the past a few members who sat in the council just to consider the interests of the minority thai placed them there. The speaker wandered into | a criticism of the Government's immigration policy, but was pulled up by the chairman. When the chairman proposed that the meeting go into commitI mittee to make a selection, Mr. Jensen ■ protested, as a candidate, against the closing of the list (the chairman previously remarked that they had a list of fifteen for the council and four for the Harbour Board). It should be left till after the nominations closed. Mr. Gallichan, suggested that the' league would be beautifully left if it! did not make sure beforehand of thebest men. and their platform. A baiiot of the nominated caaididates (in committee) resulted in the following being selected for inclusion in the i league's ticket : — - | City Council Election— -Messrs. A. R. Atkinson, W. H. P. Barber, W. H. Bennett, F. Cohen, J. E. Fitzgerald' J R. Fletcher, G. Frost, J. Godber, A. Leigh Hunt, S. J. Moran, H. Price, G. Shirtcliffe, John Smith, .W. J. Thompson, J. Trevor. Harbour Board Election — J. E Fitzgerald, R. Fletcher, W. Hildreth, J, Trevor. The league will issue an announce- j ment to the electors, regarding the policy favoured by the candidates contesting ■ the elections under its ausDices. | MR. BEDFORD AT NEWTOWN. Mr. W. Scott Bedford, at ono time a member of the Dnnedin City Council a i candidate for a seat on the Wellington, City Council, opened his campaign, at the Newtown Public Library last ndght,. ' About twenty-five persons were present. Mr. Robert Rigg presided. Mr. Bedford urged tho importance of just conditions of labour, and ' advocated that the City Council should set an example to other employees in dealing fairly with its employees. He was, he eadd, a great believer in the beautifying of the city, . and a strong advocate for the sweeping away of slums. It was the duty of every elector, he maintained, to vote next November for men who would, if returned to Parliament, advocate such a tax as would 1 make it impossible for ■ any one to hold land for speculative purposes. The. amalgamation of the city and Miramar Borough should be brought i about. Municipalisaticai of various public services could, in his opinion, be carried out without Io6s ( to the city. The i electric lighting enterprise in Wellington had proved a great success, and the council should go in for other echemes. There should be municipal hot sea baths, and municipal fruit and fish markets, j Fish waa very plentiful in New Zealand waters, but the, prices wer6 being unfairly kept up, and a municipal market would not be a success unless the State co-operated. In his opinion the council should have called for fresh tenders for the right to advertise on tramcars. One of tho first things the new council should do wafi to provide drainage for the outlying parts of the city. Other work* which should be done were the extension of the ' Wallace-street tram line to connect with the Newtown system, the establishment of an art gallery, and the better opening up of the Cambridgeterrace plantation. If he were returned he should do his very best to eae that the council treated one part of the city as fairly as another. Replying to a question Mr. Bedford said that he could olaim to have been instrumental in j bringing about the Greater Dunedia ! scheme. He was not connected with any i clique in the city, and ho did not want to be on any "ticket." On the motion of the chairman a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Bedford for hie address.