AUCKLAND BY-ELECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 55, 14 June 1910, Page 5

AUCKLAND BY-ELECTION.

MR. DAVIS NOT NERVOUS. MR. POOLE'S VIOLENT WORDS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Mr. George Davis, Labor and Temperance candidate for Auckland East byelection, addressed a crowded meeting 1 in the Choral Hall to-night. Mr. R. French .presided, and there were also on ; the puatform—C. H. Poole, T. E. Taylor and D. McLaren, M's.P. Mr. Davis, who had a splendid hearing, and who spoke much better man on a previous occasion, advocated nationalisation of land, the bare majority vote the licensing question, the full rights • of Civil Servants, equal opportunities of education, agricultural education in farming districts, and the referendum. He advocated the abolition of the Upper House, declaring that the qualification get a seat the present was to be I "a political boodler." If it was necessary to get the confidence of the people to send men to the House of Representatives, it was also necessary that the same principle should be applied to the ' U(pper House; and if the representatives | of the people did their duty proerly, the country could be verv well spared I the expense of the "old men's refuge." | He contended that the Cabinet should !be chosen by Parliament. IJe advocated, amongst other things, State ownership of monopolies, statutory preference to ' I unionists, the right. to work, a State J bank with the sole right of note issue, ■ and appointments in the defence force to be made only according to merit. Mr. Taylor contended that mothers required better representation in Parliament.

Mr. Poole protested against the return to Parliament of Mr. Myers, who stood for the most degrading monopoly the world had ever known, and ne thought that the statement made by Mr. Myers that he was not in favor of No License was a challenge to the intelligence of the community. Ho thought that the savage, brntal acknowledgment would be resented by the electors on Thursday next. The candidate received a vote of confidence.