SPEECH BY MR MASSEY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8040, 30 January 1906, Page 2

SPEECH BY MR MASSEY.

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In proposing the principal toast Mr Massey referred to the result of Hie election, and said that communications he had received from defeated candidates had enabled him to understand the cause of the great victory, Tke Opposition had been defeated because the Government could bring influence to bear on the elections such as tke Opposition could not possibly exercise. He asserted that patronage had been liberally bestowed, and public money used for Party purposes. Speaking of the Government's borrowing, Mr Massey said he wondered how long the colony could go on borrowing two and a-half millions a year at- four per cent. Every man ought to make a study of the finance of the country. He had tke right to try and 'inprove its social condition* and to push the railways and bridges. He reminded his hearers that 159, ODD electors had voted against (he Government, and said the Opposition, though a very small party, would go on fighting, and meant to kohl the fort, Mr Massey then, on behalf of Moore's supporters, presented him with a large silver epcrguo and a Russian carved arm chair. The banquet was largely attended despito tke bad weather Mr Massey will leave for Ike North on Wednesday. Mr Jas. Allen, M.H.R., is also in town.