POLITICAL PARS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 13 November 1919, Page 3

POLITICAL PARS.

MR C. J. PARR, G.M.G., M.P AT PARAKAI.

On Friday evening Mr Parr, Reform candidate for Eden, ad- '--£ dressed . a large gathering of in the P.arakai Hall. Mr ITOL. Aitkenhead, chairman of the Waitemata County Council, presided. The candidate, in a very telling _^ speech, said the country needed a" strong, stable Government, , which would deal firmly with the Bolsheyick and extremists. The Ro-slow" policy spelt national suicide, and must be fought. Sir Joseph Ward had left Mr Massey in a hole just before the

session, but notwithstanding this f^Mr Massey had not faltered, but v had shown pluck and capacity, and the session just finished had produced some excellent "legislation. Mr Parr said the new Land Act restored the old homestead system under which a man could take up 400 acres of gum ■ land from the Crown for nothing —no rent, or rates, or taxes, and could get the freehold without payment. This; would revolutionise the North. Thanks to the new Railway ■V. Minister, a new time table would come in next month, when great improvements would be made on th* Northern line. Mr Parr said New Zealand now owed nearly 200 millions, and our .finances required most careful : handling, Experienced and tried ""^/-men should go to Parliament, as they were needed. The candidate said that, with the aid of Major Coates, he had secured a grant of £1000 this year for the Hot Springs. - A vote of thanks to the speaker sr^~--was carried with enthusiasm.

Hon. J. G. Coates, M.P., who passed through Helensville on Monday, en route to Dargaville, opened his election campaign at Paparoa last evening (Wednesday). Mr Coates will speak at several places around Dargaville, and proceed to Auckland this week end, where he will speak at a number of meetings in the Reform interests.

Says the Wairoa Bell: —At last the National Executive of the N.Z. Labour Party has approved of the candidature of Mr Alfred Gregory as the official Labour candidate. sand we understand that all members of the Party have been called upon to support him accordingly. This they will not do. Of course the whole thing is utterly ridiculous, and the Labour Party in Kaipara has missed a great opportunity.

The exact boundaries'of the northern portion of the Eden electorate, about which there have been sereral discussions lately, are as follows : —From Motion's Creek by foreshore to point near E-iverhead; thence across country to railway line at Kumeu, and along railway line a ■hort distance; thence northwards five miles, westward four miles to Kaipara River, at point just above Helensville, and down river to mouth ; thence by coastline round to Green Bay, Manukau Harbour.