MASSEY AT WHANGAREI.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 333, 1 February 1911, Page 5

MASSEY AT WHANGAREI.

"TOO MUCH BORROWING." [ I!Y TKI.K'iUAI'H. —muss ASSOCIATION.] Whangarei, This Day. Mr Massey addressed a largely attended public meeting in the Theatre last night, and said Sir Jospeh Ward's Devonport speech was not such an important deliverance as he expected. He dealt with the five million loan, and said too much borrowing hid been done during the last few years. He believed in moderate borrowing as against plunging, and claimed the granting of the freehold would obviate a good deal of borrowing. He said the taxation, including the death and Custom duties and increased railway fares, had been increased by half a million during each of the past two years. He denied any connection with the Black pamphlet, and said if anyone could prove he had anything to do with the publication or circulation of it, or even knew of its existence before it was on sale, he would retire for ever from public life. The Government's policy was a weather-cock one and one of humbug. Mr Massey was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.