POLITICAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3870, 13 November 1928, Page 2

POLITICAL.

MR. LINKLATER RECEIVES ENTHUSIASTIC OVATION AT ' CARNARVON. Thirty-one settlers greeted Mr. Linklater, the official Reform candidate for Manawatu at Carnarvon on Saturday evening. Mr. J. F. McKelvie was in the chair and introduced the candidate. Mr. Linklater’s address was listened to with interest. At the conclusion Mr. Len McKenzie said he wished to pay a' tribute to Mr. Linklater for his work on behalf of the Carnarvon settlers since he had been elected to Parliament. As an instance, said Mr. McKenzie, the Clydesdale School Committee had for some time made repeated applications to the Education Board for a new school building at Clydesdale buthad, on all occasions, been stonewalled. Their request had met the same fate when placed before the Department, but he was pleased to say that when the matter had brought before Mr. Dm-klater he had taken the matter up and had got the grant through. This had been typical of Mr. Linklater as member for the district and he thought that it was only fair to mention the matter and to express the appreciation of the people of that part of the district of Mr. Linklater’s services. (Applause). Mr. Scott, in moving a motion of thanks and confidence to the candidate, said that they had had several candidates at Carnarvon this election soliciting the votes of the electors, but without exception, they had all decried the Government and none had any constructive criticism to offer. After hearing Mi 1 . Linklater’s address he felt sure thaf the electors had every confidence in the Government and Mr. Linklater (applause). Mr. McKelvie seconded the motion which was carried unanimously.

MR. VEITCH IN THIS ELECTORATE. Mr. W. Veitch, one of the leaders of the United Party paid a flying visit through this electorate on Saturday and spoke at Bulls, Rongotea, Foxton and '.Shannon. The inclement weather precluded large attendances, but the speaker was accorded good hearings in all the centres. At Shannon he was subjected to some heckling from the Labour element. At Foxton the Mayor (Mr. Perreau) presided. Mr. Veitch was accompanied on the platform by Mr. Small, the United Party The speaker said the United offered the electors an alternative policy to the present Government. The rights and liberties of the individual were being interfered with by the passing of legislation by Order-in-Council rather than by Act of Parliament. He criticised the Labour Party and said they were out to kill the Liberal Party, even to give a seat to a Reformer, by vote splitting. Labour and Reform were more closely allied than the United or Liberal Party. He said to vote for Reform against a Labour no-confidence motion was not to support Reform. The true test was how men voted when legislation comes along. Labour had .supported Reform on the .Motor Traffic Bill, which he referred to as a wicked piece of legislation. The Labour leader’s obscession was against all Liberals. He criticised the Goveimment’s land and finance policies and stated that members of the Ministry were not students of economies. He then dealt fully with the United’s policy which wo- . uld bring prosperity to the Dominion and eliminate unemployment. The leader was a proved statesman. Support for secondary industries would go side by side with the land, and finance policy. Such a definite and clear-cut policy if puli into effect would start the country along the road of progress on safe and sound lines. He urged the electors to support the candidature of Mr. Small. In reply to a question Mi*. Veitch said that every penny of the Party’s loan proposals would be borrowed from Great Britain. On the motion of Mr. Hunt, seconded by. the chairman, a vote of thanks was accorded the speaker.' ISSUE OF ORDERS-IN-COUNCIL. “There is nothing new about this Order-in-Council cry,” said the Prime Minister at Dannevirke on Saturday evening. “Every Government has heard it and every Government- uses the system, and it will. be the same now and for His Government, however,, had made it a rule to circulate proposed Orders-in-Council among all likely to be concerned, so that objections could be made before the orders were issued. Mr. J. Linklater, official Reform candidate for Manawatu, addressed the electors of Glen Oroua yesterday afternoon. Mr. H. Lancaster occupied the chair and there was an attendance of 39. At the conclusion a vote of thanks and confidence was carried on a show of hands. .

MR. SMALL AT FOXTON. Mr. Small fired the final shot in his campaign on behalf of the United Party, so far as Foxton is concerned, in the Royal theatre last night. Mr. J. Chrystall occupied the chair and there was an attendance of about 100. The candidate received a patient hearing, a single interjection and at the conclusion no questions were asked.

The candidate said the campaign had been conducted throughout in a friendly spirit and he hoped he and his opponents would remain friends after the election. Mr. Small then adversely criticised the Government’s land policy and administration in terms of previous speeches and accused the Government of somnolence during the past three years. People were going off the land, mortgages were increasing and farmers sons were going to the cities and entering the professions instead of becoming producers. Land settlement and cheap finance were the only hope for the “country. If Reform remained in power they would again have soup kitchens, closed schools, and 10/per week and tucker for farm employees! He adversely criticised the railway administration and railway construction works and added all “this money was being spent on things that are dying —dead,” as flying would supersede railways in the near future. He objected to the duty on Australian wheat and flour, and referred to the subsidy on pork as vote-catching. He had not heard of any farmer having received any of the pork subsidy, “If the farmers haven’t got it who has?” he said. Mr. Small said if there was any farmer in the hall who had received any of the pork subsidy ho would take him to a jeweller’s shop and buy him a gold medal (laughter). He admitted some good had been done by the Government in connection with the subsidy to the apple growers. He advocated a free breakfast table and concluded by calling upon them to do nothing to injure the heritage handed down by the pioneers. If the United Party was returned to power the people would be on the highroad to prosperity. 'On the motion of Mr. J. Burr, seconded by Mr. T. Hunt, the candidate was accorded a vote of thanks. The chairman, in supporting the motion, said the great need to-day was for cheaper money, the lack of which was the cause of stagnation and unemployment. In acknowledging the vote Mr. Small said while supporting the policy of the United Party, if legislation was'brought down by them inimical to the welfare of the people not a team of bullocks would force his support. The usual compliment to the chair concluded the meeting.