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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 17, 19 July 1884, Page 3

Election Notices - TITANAWATU ELECTION To F. Y. Lethbrldge, Esq., G M. Snf.lson, Esq., and the eiec tors signing tiie above requisi tion. 5 Gentlemen, In response to youi - very flattering and gratifying reques . I have great pleasure in consenting to be nominated as a candidate foi Manawatu at the coming election. I shall take an early opportunity o ■ addressing the electors at the v.-irion: ■ ( centres, and explaining my politica ! views in detail. In the meantime I may state that J am more in accord with the policy o: the Atkinson Ministry than with thai 1 of any of the numerous leaders on thf other side of the present House ' Though that Ministry has no doubl made mistakes I believe the leading members of it have on the whole worked honestly, according to theii lights, for the .good of the colony al large, and that especially they have tried to promote the prosperity of the country districts by liberalising the land laws, and by their scheme for the construction of roads and bridges, the partial failure of which through want of funds is attributable to causes beyond the control of any Government. 1 cannot, however, agree with Mr Rolleston's projected scheme ol perpetual leasing, or with what it is now the fashion to call the nationalization of the land. Let the Crown lands be leased on the easiest terms compatible with due provision for survey and road making, but as under the present Act let a purchasing clause always be granted after a fair proportion of improvement has been made. The truest nationalization of the land, I hold, is to settle it with freeholders in moderate sized blocks, trusting for revenue to the development of the resources of the country caused by such settlement rather than to rents extracted by a Central Government from a State tenantry. i agree generally with the native policy oi* the Atkinson Min'tstry, and especially so with Mr Bryce's proposal for the resumption of tho preemptive right. I am in favour of secular education, and as long as the finances of the colony warrant it, of free primary education, and in any case of free education up to the fourth standard. I should like to see our railways managed by a non-political Board, the members of which should only be removable in the same manner as Judges of the Supreme Court. Other and minor questions I will deal with when addressing the electors face to face. If I have the honor to be elected, I can conscientiously say that I will endeavour to the best of my ability to represent the district as a whole, without bias in favour of any particular part of it, while remembering at the same time that a member is elected to watch over the interests of the colony at large. Your Obedient Servant, D. H. MACARTHUR. TO DONALD FRASEII, ESQ. O IR, — We the undersigned, Electors of the Manawatu District, request that you will allow yourself to be nominated as a Candidate to represent the District in the House of Representatives at the forthcoming election. We are, Dear Sir, Yours Respectfully— J. R. Forster-Pratt Bernard Newcombe Alexander Ferguson J. 0. Batchelar Kenneth McKenzie James King (And 203 other names) To J. R. Forster-Pratt, Alexander Ferguson, J. O. Batchelar. Kenneth McKenzie, James King, Bernard Newcombe, Esqrs., and the 203 othei gentlemen. Gentlemen, — In response to your verj influential and flattering requisition. ] have great pleasure in allowing myself tc be nominated as a candidate for the honoi of representing the Manawatu Distriot it Parliament. It is my intention to mcci the electors of tbis district as often as ii . is possible before the election day and a not only at the principal townships, bu , also the various ridings of the. County, ii order to express my views upon the dif r ferent important points. I may say tha if I have the honor -t6*be elected your re ' presentative, I will faith fully work for th L good of your district and the whole colonj ) and be at all times ready to render to yoi ... . y ■ V- n.■ an account of my stewardship. ■■;. I am, Gentlemen, Yours Obediently, : DONALD FRASEB i 0A £ ACRE Farm for Sale on eas r /0-_co terms. Apply to J.C; Tliomi son, Cadi Exchange. . , > •. {-■-. A . .-. ..■•• •■ -t .■