GEN ERAL ELECTION

Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1928, Page 6

GEN ERAL ELECTION

UNITED PARTY. ,'BylTelegraph--Press ). o’,0 ’, ,: p." t ——- 1 ■ , , WELLINGTON, October 11. ' Sir Joseph Ward (Leader of the •United Party) will open the campaign .on behalf of the United Party at the - night Mi) rid ay. •> Sir Joseph Ward will speak iri Wellington later, but the date lias not /beeiufixfed... /. "HeMsb.. intends to speak in some of the larger centres. REFORM .CAMPAIGN. CHRISTOHURGII; October 11. The Prime 1 Minister will, opert his' election campaign at Christchurch next Wednesday, speaking in the. new Municipal Concert Hall. , s >{. 'Cm Oct. 12.

Afr L. R. C. Macfarlarie, Reform candidate for Hurunui, addressed a meeting- in Rangiora yester'eveHe said he mo uld claim he was ,a Liberal in all things except in regard to finance, in which he was a Conservative. There was no need for the establishment of a State Rank. He favoured immigration organised on a sliding scale and. declared the .United Party was composed mostly of malcontents; and profiteers. His opponent, George Forbes, was “a decent little chap,” but so far as the United Party was concerned, he had fallen in up to the neck. The -candidate was accorded a vote of : ‘thanks:

MINISTER OF LANDS. : - WELLINGTON, October 11. Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister of .Lands, spoke at Upper Hutt to-niglit, He took the opportunity, he said, to reply to some statements made by Mr H. E. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, at Masterton last night. Much of Mr,Holland’s speech,-said. Mr McLeod, was a -complete distortion of .fact, and an .appeal to the non-intellec-tuals, while much olf the academic •financial proposals that were put forward by^m-Labour Party in all parts of the Empire. while iin opposition, had had to lie abajidpneit when they came into office, striking examples being found in Australia. He asked Mr HoliaficV' to pease and point to any one of ,th§ Australian Labourgoverned states where money for farmers and .workers had been .cheaper or advanced to a greater extent than in New ..Zealand. REFORM CANDIDATE. «. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 12. Mr H. H. Holland (member of the Hospital Roiird .and Drainage JBoard), will lie 1 Reforiii' candidate for Avon.