CARROLL AT DUNEDIN.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 375, 5 July 1911, Page 5

CARROLL AT DUNEDIN.

FIGHTING SPEECH. [UT TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, This Day. Sir James Carroll addressed a large meeting here last night. He said Mr Massey, in his bucolic way, was a fine man, but his policy was destructive and not constructive. There was no foundation for the statements by Messrs Massey and Allen that overtures were made to the Opposition to join the Government. He quoted figures showing that 76 per cent, of the public debt was returnng interest; the total figures being £62,493,000 out of £81,000,000. Regarding Mr Massey's statement that £6,500,000 was borrowed last year, Sir James Carroll said the money had been spent as follows:- Railway construction £1,600,000; additional rolling stock, £700,000; land settlement £1,000,000; advances to settlers £1,6 755,000; advances to workers, £235,000; other public works, £200,000; Dreadnought, £1,250,000. The Opposition, he continued, would have it that members of the Government were pocketing this money. Innuendo and insinuation were the blackest crimes in the category of political warfare. The Opposition knew the figures were as above quoted, so why did they not tell the people of them? Regarding Mr Massey's complaints about Maori landlordism, he might say there were 133 Europeans who owned 13 million acres. Why didn't the Opposition turn the hose on them instead? Could the Opposition point out one instance where a Maori was in a charitable institution? Mr Massey knew nothing of the gospel of Taihoa, but he went storming round the country about it. When a new loan was obtained, the demands for roads and bridges by Opposition members for their districts alone nearly always exceeded the amount of tha loan. The Hon. Ngata also spoke,treating irf a brief address with the Government'* native policy..