NOT FOR MR. DONALD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 11

NOT FOR MR. DONALD

NO DISCOURSE ON GREEK CLASSICS “MORE IMPORTANT PROBLEMS" Oxford University graduate, lawyer and former Rugby footballer. Mr. Alan Donald, official Unit-d Party candidate for the Part.ell seat at the by-election, told his Hearers last evening that he could not promise them a discourse on Socrates and Diogenes. He considered that present day problems were far more important. The meeting was held at th** residence of Mr. G. Welch. Tamaki West, where the candidate was given a veryattentive hearing. Mr. M. G. McArthur presided. The candidate dealt at length with land settlement, saying that the future prosperity of the country lay in the fullest development of vacant lands. The present Government was settling the land, and 9,000 acres in the Auckland land district alone had alrraly been opened for selection. Two further blocks of dairying land would shortly be made available. He had the greatest confidence in the Government’s land policy, which he felt must have the effect of reducing the present unemployment. Mr. Donald said that the appointment of a trade commissioner by New Zealand in Canada would be of gioat value to the Dominion in extending the markets which already ex*st» d there. He also dealt with the potentiality of markets in the East. He considered that there would have been much adverse comment had thv Minister of Finance not balanced the budget Accounts must be balanced, he said, and it would have been interesting to have heard liow the Reform Party would have balanced the budget Would it have reduced civil servants wages and let free those well able to stand taxation?

The Minister of Public Works, the TTon. E. A. Ransom, arrived from Wellington this morning, and will speak at St. Mary’s Hall this evening in support of Mr. Donald’s candidature.