STRATFORD BY- ELECTION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3452, 6 April 1920, Page 7

STRATFORD BY- ELECTION.

BOTH CANDIDA’["ES BUSY. " \VAl\‘(‘-E-ANIo7I, I\'fm'«~ll 3]. The by-election. for ’the St'r:\ffol'd seat has now been commenced in earnest, and both C:lll‘did:l.lGS, *.Mr J. B. -Hine, ex~.\[in.istel', and Ml‘ I\lastel'>>, the unse-a.te(l en-.llldidul'e, are putting every ounce of weight: into the (Eontesl'. In <liseussing the public works policy ‘of the Govel'n.lnen’r-, Mir Hine said that the Cabinet before ‘the last‘ election decided. to‘ proceed with :1 forward movement in regarcl to the public works of the country, and was going to carry out that policy. ‘All the remissnless of the past years was to be made up. He urged the adoption of the coiiti-act system in regard to public works, instead. of the present policy. He advocated that a sysfem of c—an’reens should »follow the public w'ol'ks,«—-dry 'cant‘eens——ilr ordeir rtlnal. the men on the works should not be at. tlie mercy of the storekeepers, who would ‘-chm-go whafeveil lpricés they liked. " ‘ V" 3"" "-,-5‘