MR OWEN C. PLEASANTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9176, 20 June 1908, Page 5

MR OWEN C. PLEASANTS.

As will be seen by our “advertising columns the candidate for Parliamentary honours in the Oro.ua electorate in the Liberal interest, ; is Mr Owen O. Pleasants, who made such a good fight for the seat at _ the last election. Mr Pleasants is a farmer, and one of the practical kind, who can do anything .oh a farm that may be required, and who has gained the sound position he. has attained by energy and good management. Mr Owen Pleasants; his father, was one of the pioneers of the Feilding consequently the youth, and ’as is wellknown, the manhood of the present candidate, has been passed within h short distance of the chief town of the electorate. He has taken an active part on public bodies, havingbeen a..member of the Manchester Volunteer Corps, of the Oroua County Council and the Palmerston North Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. During his membership of the Oroua County Council, orjrather the Oroua Road Board, that body found that its borrowing powers were insufficient to meet the needs of road construction in the district. Mr Pleasants was the one to see that the remedy consisted in the conversion of the Road Board district into a County and moved to that end, with the result that the borrowing powers were doubled, to the great benefit of the district in the reading work that could then be carried out. Much more could be said, but he is well-known to the public in the Oroua electorate.