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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 434, 10 September 1908, Page 3

ALBION FOOTBALL CLUB. SOCIAL AND DANCE. POSTPONED until Wednesday, September 23rd. P. T. ROBINSON, Hon. Secretary PUBLIC HALL. THURSDAY EVENING NEXT. AN Indignation Meeting will be hold as above, in reference to the action of the Government towards a vital clause of the proposed Foxton Harbour Board Bill. Everyone invited to attend. Front seats reserved for ladies. tar MANAWATU ROWING CLUB BAZAAR ! pUBLIC HALL, FOXTON, SEPTEMBER x6th, 17th and 18th. RAFFLES, MUSIC, DANCING, HIDDEN TREASURE, COMPETITIONS, ETC., ETC. PLAIN AND FANCY DRESS. REFRESHMENT STALLS, ART STALLS, FANCY STALLS, PRODUCE STALLS, ETC., ETC. DOOR TICKET ART UNION. PIN CUSHION COMPETITION. HIDDEN TREASURE, Clues 6d each every night. SIDE SHOWS GALORE, Including: BRAN TUBS, SHOOTING GALLERY, SKITTLE ALLEY, MIRRORS, PAINTING, NEEDLEWORK, ETC. DON’T FORGET THE 16th, 17th and 18th.

ADMISSION : i/-, with chance in Art Union. Children 6d. J. W. ROUGH, MANAWATU DRAINAGE COMMISSION. NOTICE 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. TO THE ELECTORS OE 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 of 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 Life 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 of 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 peelings. 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 of the Dominion as a whole.—l have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, Hon. Sec. F. W. FRANKLAND.