THE LABOUR TICKET.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 96, 25 April 1911, Page 4

THE LABOUR TICKET.

The Labour Eight's meeting at tho New Century Hall was well attended. Mr. E. J. Carey declared that the fight was one between employers' . associations and Labour. All over the country Citizens' tickets were put up to split votes and spoil the Labour candidates' chances. The keynote* frf the Labour policy was public ownership for the public good. In regard to employment, lie said the State .and the city should set the standard. He did not think £2 8s per. week was a decent wage for a labourer and his family. Mr. D. M'Laren said the reason why so many houses- were to let was that the city was now feeling tho evil effects of the land gambling craze. He advocatsd that the city, as in Germany, shoidd retain to itself a portion of the increment.' The establishment of municipal brick works was also advocated by the candidate fco break down a "ring" which, he said, at the present time had the city at its mercy. Mr. A. Leigh Hunt addressed a wellattended meeting in O'Donnell's Hall, Kilbirnie, laet> evening. Referring to the tramways Mr. Hunt said that before an outside expert was imported to report upon the tramways the council should first get -a report from, its own officers. It was possible, also, that the new council would be able to overhaul the tramways on its own account. At the conclusion of his address Mr. Hunt was accorded a vote of thanks and condenee. ' Mr. Len M'Kenzie spoke at the Tiffin, Manners-street, last evening. The proposal to impc-rb an expert to report 'on the tramways would, he said, have no support from him. The enterprise should be controlled by a board, v apart> from tho City Council, as was done in' .the case of Christchurch. More attention should be given to recreation grounds, and better street-cleaning was required. Mr. S. J. Moran addrssed a meeting at Wadestown last evening at which Mr. Geo. Nash presided. The candidate, in the main, followed the lines of his previous speeches. He wae accorded a vote of thanks and confidence. Dr. Cameron addressed a meeting at Brooklyn last evening. He condemned the proposal to have outside advice on thp tramways, a.nd eaid the local officers were quite capable of doing all that was required if they were only given a free hand. A novelty in the candidate's address was his advocacy of the establishment of a public golf course, so that people could be got on to the hills and consumption combated. Mr. John Fuller addressed about thirty electors at Northland last evening. He mentioned that he had always been a student of civic management. His recent tour of the world gave him an opportunity of acquiring knowledge of up-to-date municipalities. which should prove invaluable should ha be successful at the poll.