THE GENERAL ELECTIONS.

Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 10 December 1919, Page 2

THE GENERAL ELECTIONS.

me Mckenzie at kikiorangi. Mr J. McKenzie, the Labour candidate, addressed a meeting of the electors at Bikiorangi on Tuesday night. Mr G. A. Monk presided and there was a good attendance. The candidate advocated proportional representation, the initiative, referendum and recall, and spoke at some length on the cost of living, the increase in which he attributed to the operation of combines, assorting that tho Government had made no serious attempt tcT-deal with tho problem. The aggregation of land aud soldier settlement were also dealt with by the candidate, who condemned the Government for failing to break up tho big estates and for encouraging the inflation of land values by tho expenditure of public money. At the close of the address a number of questions wore asked and answered by the candidate, and tho meeting closed with a vote of thanks and confidence. WOMEN POLICE. j "I will never vote for women | police as long as I live,-'' said Mr T. M. Wilford. emphatically, at Lower Hutt, in answer to a question. "In my opinion tho only women who would be fit to be women police are women who would not take the job," ! , A "GO-SLOW" ELECTION MEETING. ■ I A correspondent writes'to the liana* ' watu "Evening Standard": At the • meeting at Rangiotu. which was to 1 have been addressed by the Labour can- ; didato on Friday evening, the audience, r after waiting patiently till nearly 9 r p.m., got very restless, The candidate 1 not having appeared at that hour. Mr - W. H. Pearco moved and Mr J. Donald- < son seconded: "That as it was a goslow meeting it be adjourned fill after • the election." Tho audience then dis--1 pcrscd, more or less disappointed. [ NOTES. r Mr Ishcrwood has an important aai- nouncement in our advertising columns. v Mr James McKenzie (official Labour s candidate) will address electors at >. Tc Horo to-night (Wednesday;, and c will also speak at Manalsau to-morrow £ night, aud at Otaki on .Saturday night (in the openair), Mr W. 11. Field (Reform candidate) will address the electors of Otaki at BrightV Theatre on Friday night next.