THE LABOUR PARTY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 86, 12 April 1911, Page 3

THE LABOUR PARTY.

Messrs. D. M'Laren. M.P., A. H. Hindmarsh, and G. F. Eeyling addressed a meeting of electors in the schoolroom, Brooklyn, last night, in support of the Labour candidates' election to the City Council and the Harbour Board. The hall was crowded, and the speakers received a good hearing, and the usual vote of thanks and confidence. Mr. Hindmarsh urged that a danger to the city existed in giving too great power to vested interests, and the common people should have their fair share of representation on the City Council. It could not be argued that either Councillor M'Laren or himself had ever supported a policy of public extravaganc-a, and "one ounce of fact was worth a ton of mere supposition" in estimating tho Labour candidates' intentions and work. Wellington could not stand still, and it would be necessary to advance the works of street improvements and light, establish public markets, ,and make other advances, with a due regard to what is practicable on lines of sound economy. 'X'hat was what the Labour men advocated. Mr. G. F. Reyling, in opening, said the r i3.bour candidates wero not out for revolution, neither did they want to sco stagnation. If a policy of wasteful expenditure was enter-ad on, such would recoil on the mass of people who wero workers. Therefore, the Labour candidates were not likaly to uphold vraste or extravagance. The outlying districts required more attention because these vrae tho proper 'residential quarters, and tha living conditions of the people should come first in the government of tho city. The private streets wanted to bo put in better order, and pavements, lighting, and other minor works should be Dushed \ forward much more rapidly.