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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3548, 18 July 1905, Page 3

ElectoralTO THE ELECTORS OF MANAWATF. Ladies and Gen'i-II'MEX, —In announcing my candidature as an Independent Liberal for this important Electorate at the forthcoming November election, and in soliciting your suffrages on that occasion, I do so labouring under one disadvantage. Unlike some nt my opponents I have not previously been a member of the House of Representatives, and if you do me the honour to accept mv services at the November election you have to take me to a certain extent on trust. But, Ladies and Gentlemen, to everything there must be a beginning. The vacancieslcftby deatli and resignation could never in the long run be filled up, if the newcomers were for ever refused a hearing and a .trial. What, therefore, I have to seek to convince you .of, since I have no past services to plead, is that among newcomers I need not be ranked as unworthy of your trust and confidence. I wish to impress on the electors that I support the great bulk of the Government’s poliev, but I reserve to myself the right of voting independently of cause or partyIn my coming address, which will take place shortly throughout the electorate, it will he patent to you what arc the several planks of my platform. I mav here state that I fully recognise that the future governmenf of this Colony requires indisputable energy and progressive enterprise combined with prudence and economy. My qualifications for the position of vonr representative, apart from the right of cvcrv elector to offer himself as a candidate for vonr suffrages, are, I venture to hope, sufficient. For many years I have occupied responsible positions in the New Zealand Civil Service, ending with the appointment ot Government Life Insurance Commissioner, and I have since held high business appointments m London and New York. This experience, it cannot be disputed, must fit its subject for dealing in a spirit of forethought with questions of legislative and administrative measures conductive to the benefit of this Manawatu electorate and of the colony as a whole. —I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, F. W. FRANKLAND.