POLITICAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 67, 14 November 1914, Page 2

POLITICAL

UUNLUIH NORTH. Pek I’rebh (Association. Dunedin, November 13. Mr A. Walker, Labor caiulidato for Dunedin North, opened his campaign this evening, lie accused the Massey Government of weakness on the quesLion of cost of living, and said that at the outbreak of war the Government’s action was in the interests of the Hour millers. -Referring to the Himtly disaster, lie would not make an accusation against anyone, but they knew that the Bill prepaied by the Mackenzie Government contained provisions which might have prevented such an accident, and the Massey Government did not push it on until subsequent to the catastrophe. He quoted ligures to show that the business of the State lire Insurance , had fallen oil’ since the present Government had assumed cilice, and expounded at some length the platform of the Dunedin Political i Labor Committee, which he contended was very similar to that ol the Liberal League. A vote of thanks and fullest confidence was carried. THE CHALMERS SEAT. Dunedin, November 13. At a mooting of delegates representing the Liberal Leagues in the ; Chalmers electorate to-night, it was : announced that Mr H. L. Mollcr, : Liberal candidate had been compelled, through illness, to retire from | the contest. Mr W. I). Mason, of I Middlemarch, was chosen as the Liberal candidate. NEW CANDIDATE IN PARNELL.

Auckland, November 13. j For business reasons Mr 11. S. I BviggS) who has boon contesting the l Parnell electorate as the selected Op--1 position candidate, has decided to retire. Mr J. J. Sullivan is announced as the Opposition candidate. He | was until recently in the Lands and Deeds Department, and left it to 1 read for the law. | LIBERALISM IN BRUCE. Milton, November 13. ' Mr R. C. Smith, Liberal candidate for Bruce, addressed a largo meeting here to-night. He devoted much of ibis attention to pointing out how Mr | Massey’s Government had not ful- ' filled its promises, and was at the conclusion of his remarks accorded a 'comprehensive and unanimous vote of ’thanks, the meeting recognising in i him a fit candidate to represent Bruce; further that this meeting reaffirms its faith in the Liberal party as the party that would give a square deal to the mass of the population of I New Zealand.