“POLITICAL THRALDOM”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 151, 16 September 1927, Page 13

“POLITICAL THRALDOM”

COUNTRV PARTY TO BRING RELIEF KIR. MANNER’S CONTENTION (From Cor Otcn Correspondent) NGARUAWAHIA. To-day. •The Country Party is necesM ry to combat the vested interests which are increasing the burdens o J the man on the land," -aid Mr. C. A. Ma gner. Country party candidate for the Raglan by-election, in his opening address in Te Kowhal last evening. It w as destined to become a great factor in the politics of the count-y.

HE condemned the Prime Minister for having let farmers down over dairy control and for not setting up a mral bank. The agricultural finance jeme which had been established only a fragment of what the farmers required. The solution of the present unsatisfactory state of affairs was the Country Party. Though its formation had been met with hostility in some quarters, the day was coming when It troa'ld he a great power for good in the land. The whole country was full of dissatisfaction with the present government. NOT political aspirant Mr. Maguer said that he was not a political aspirant. He had not sought nomination, but the farmers had wanted him, and now that he had began he would prosecute the campaign with all his heart and strength. His ideal was to give the farmer complete rehef from political thraldom. For him there would be no turning back. All he asked was a fair field and no favour. The Country Party’s aim was to make farming a payable proposition. It supported the League of Nations ami preferred treaties to wars, and on the question of defence it advocated mobilisation of industrial resources as well as man-power. A wisely-adjusted income-tax based on a man’s ability to pay rather than on his power to purchase, economy In the public finances, Imperial free trade, and Imperial currency, were planks in Mr. Magnar’s platform. He believed that the Arbitration Court's constitution should be amended to allow farmers to be represented when slaughtermen’s wages were being discussed. The meeting wa3 very enthusiastic and! contained many visitors from other districts. Mr. Magner received a unanimous vole of thanks and collide nee. LABOUR PARTY LEADER ADDRESSES IN RAGLAN THREE MEETINGS ARRANGED The leader of the Opposition, Mr. H E. Holland, M.P., has announced hit intention of i .peaking in the Ragla i electorate In support of the caadi ia.ture of Mr. Lee Martin. Mr. Holland will address meetings at IVailku an September 26, Ngaruawtihia on September 27, and at Huntly on September 28. Mr. I.ee Martin's campaign will he advanced at Huatly on September 22 and at Ngaruawahia on September 20. REFOiUM CANDIDATE DEFENDS MR. COATES PATRIOTISM IN TRADE MR. WARING’S ADDRESSES (From Our Own Correspondent.) NGARUAWAHIA, To-day. r J’HE Reform Party’s candidate for the Raglan constituency, Mr. A. H. Waring, stood out in deience of the Prime Minister's Position in regard to the failure of dairy control when addressing » meeting at Ngaruawahia last evening. Those who were trying to Mddle the Prime Minister with the mismanagement of the control ne castigated as Jeremiahs arid Pragruntled individuals. ( Helming to the favourable position ™ Dominion's finances he invited tie audience to think and they would j alue that there was no country in tie world that could compare with -ew Zealand. The land tax, said Mr. baring, was iniquitous. He hac Men summoned for It In the sit mp He, and he did not feel very kir dly jbß3oi»ed toward the Valuation De "““Bent He advocated the mixing “■ “*“• with patriotism. All the Dominion's prosperity w»s bound up with the fa:e of “r-tieh trade. England, he pointed out, took 8C per cent, of our prosnd America, which personf'v be stated he had no time for, 'Wk only 7 per cent. ' Waring concluded by saying 'tat Whatever the late Hon R. P. oiianl had stood for he also advocated.. ,'^ Ui " Ter ing questioners the candi,aW that he strongly favoured * ns * ruction In schools and ™*>Bht he also favoured the aboli--0 Of the Arbitration Court. He ' like muddlers coming between un Moyers a n i employees. The Arbi..,on Conn as he saw it, was a «.tect farce. Mr. Waring would not j, ® n *. e the present issues on the ensuig ballot. He had taken his °t ale all bis life and would euchred out of it. he audlen re tendered the c.andi--8 v °te ol’ thanks and confidence v‘l ot -ly one dissentient voice. Waring also addressed a :meetKowhai, where he controt* 18 suggestion that the Govera- . hnd always favoured the squatas sigainst the cockie. Personally .ft. l ** 6 rests hail always been with the , i ® and if he were returned he itwfc always for that class of blu** 9 'lnvert ment was as muctL to »aa v for t,U! Present depression as it 0 . ,. lor the rain. It was a sure sign that »*. c * paclt V of the Administration m 0 t“ e Dominion could always raise le»s'«^ n London at oue-Uall per cent, than any other country - .