POLITICAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 27 April 1907, Page 3

POLITICAL.

The New Plymouth Seat. Mr.C. E. Bellringer, who stood as a Liberal at the last generaf election, and polled between 800 and 900 votes, was seen by a News reporter. He said definitely that he would contest the seat. Asked as to his views, he said he would support the Government generally, and on a want-of-confidence motion vote with them unless the land tenure were made the test question, when he would oppose anything but the optional system. He would go further, and in the direction of deferred payment system. He believed in the limitation of area, was dead against any system of speculation in Crown lands, and favoured a system which would encourage bona-fide settlement. Mr W. G. Malone says he will contest the seat against all-comers, this being in pursuance of a ten-year-old resolution to enter politics. He announces hinjself as a Liberal of long standing, with democratic tendencies, and does most of his own thinking. He is a staunch freeholder, believing in the optional tenure. He however, believes in reasonable endowments being set aside lor hospitals and old age pensions, etc. Mr Malone served for three years in the Armed Constabulary during the Te Whiti trouble. Then he took to bush farming, which he carried on lor 12 vears in the then back-blocks of Stratford. He still farms with a partner a considerable area of back bush land, and claims to be a practical worker.