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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 432, 3 September 1908, Page 3

TO THE ELECTORS OF MANAWaTU. Ladies and gentlemen.— In announcing my candidature for this important Electorate, as a supporter of the Ward Government, at the forthcoming November election and in soliciting your suffrages on that occasion, I do so labouring under one disadvantage. Unlike one of my competitors I have not previously been a member of the House of Representatives, and if you do me the honour to accept my services you have to take me to a certain extent on trust. But, Ladies and Gentlemen, to everything there must be a beginning. The vacancies left by death and resignation could not 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 Parliamentary 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 Government policy, and that I approve of their general administration. From my past addresses, which have been circulated throughout the electorate, and from fresh speeches to be made during the present campaign, it will be patent to you what are the several planks of my platform. I may here state that I fully recognise that the future Government of this Dominion requires the indisputable energy and progressive enterprise, combined with prudence, which the Liberal Ad’ ministration has displayed for 17 years

My qualifications for the position ot your representative, apart from the right of every elector to offer himself as a candidate for your 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 of Government l ife Insurance Commisioner, and I have since held high business appointments in London and New York. I have, as many of you are aware, studied political science theoretically and practically —in a number o< different countries. I have also had the honour of serving you in local matters and in municipal politics —I trust I may assume satisfactorily, judging from the positions I have attained at successive pollings. This experience, it cannot be disputed, must fit its subject for dealing in a spirit of forethought with legislative and administrative measures calculated to promote the benefit of the Manawatu electorate (in which are my heart and my interests) and ot the Dominion as a whole. —I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, F, W. FRANKLAND.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE MANAWATU. AND GENTLEMEN— Believing that my past services as your representative in Parliament have been reasonably acceptable, I therefore announce myself as a candidate for the Manawatu seat at the ensuing general election, and respectfully solicit a renewal of your confidence at the poll. Yours faithfully, JOHN STEVENS. TO THE ELECTORS MANAWATU ELECTORATE. T ABIES AND GENTLEMEN,— I beg respectfully to inform you that it is my intention to be a candidate in the Opposition interest at the next General Election. Your obedient servant, EDWARD NEWMAN. MANAWATU DRAINAGE COMMISSION. IVTOTICE is hereby given that the above Commission will sit at the Court House, Palmerston North, on Wednesday, September 16th, 1908, at 10.30 a.m. Sittings will also, if necessary, be held at Feilding and Foxton. Anyone desiring to give evidence is requested to notify me as soon as possible, stating also at which place he desires his evidence to be taken. C. J. HEWLETT, Clerk to Commission. MOUTOA DRAINAGE DISTRICT. NOTICE is hereby given that the Ratepayers’ List for the ensuing year may be seen at the Borough Council Office, Foxton, during business hours, and that the Stipendiary Magistrate has appointed FRIDAY, nth September at 10 a.m., at the Magistrate’s Court House, Foxton, as the time and place for hearing any objections thereto. W. BOCK, Clerk. August 25th, 1908. PAINOFORTE AND ORGAN INSTRUCTION. ORGANIST AT ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH. MISS JENRS, Clyde Street, is prepared to receive pupils for Pianoforte, Pipe Organ Tuition, and Theory. Terms, etc., on application Quarter commences with first lesson,