LIBERALS AT WAIUKU

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 159, 26 September 1927, Page 13

LIBERALS AT WAIUKU

MR. T. PARKER’S CAMPAIGN (From Our Oion Correspondent) WAIUKU, Sunday. Mr. T. Parker, Liberal candidate for Raglan, and Mr. H. Atmore, M.l\ for Nalaap. addressed about SO people in th# Temperance Hall, Waiuku, on Saturday. Mr. Parker severely criticised be Government for failing’ to have a land policy. Under the Liberal. Government 60 ptr cent, of the people were on the land, while 40 per cent, v/ere in the tewns, but at the present time figures "ere reversed, and he considered a Pi’oper land policy was needed to stop tlie it flux to the cities. In criticising: the valuation of the ‘and, Mr. Parker contended that if ;!'• country were sold at tire present time it would not realise Its mortgages. 1,1 *«• year, between 1925-26, 5,009 iwoplu had left the land. Men did not • Kavs the land If they were doing: well. In a stirring address in support of JJJ* candidature. Mr. Atmore marred to the present Government as jne most helpless and incompetent ts!/ u Could possibly set.” Ali‘ '***' Government had one of the sy* . majorities ever held in the accomplished nothing - for #‘2 „ 5T len t the country, and he .Jr, confident that the people were eaay for a change. In Mr. Parker they ener S«tio and straightforward vTft.iSr® 8 a mun whom, he hoped, they thi* \J*o* r *. as representative at l? 1 on ‘ Votes of thanks were t le *P®aker.«, the meeting ter-aa-ing in cheers for the candidate.