DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 88, 4 October 1911, Page 6

DISTRICT NEWS.

TIKORAXGI. --.vj'j (From Our Own Can'e.spouienU. 1 I At a general meeting of a dairy company. which, however, .shall be .nameta.s, the spirit of co-operation was so strongly manifested that the members nit only discussed their own directors' report and -balance-sheet, but that of the Tikorangi Dairy Company was also,j)qba.tid,anjd.its alleged weaknesses emmw'ijt.cid )ii" to' stteh'ait Extent that eventually tiling l>ecame ho inextricably mixed .'"that it' one period of the .proceedings there wtis : a very grave doubt as to whether the. shareholders had not aAogted: ilac TilJorangi Company's aceml 111 s'nliSTead of their own. Two sharp frosts in succession are very, unusual at this time of;.jthc year, aid early potatoes or tomatoes will sutler from the cold snap experienced at. tle end of last week. Good growing weather is the- one thing now required to make this season a record one for daiiy- , men. Most of the dairy companies haive disposed of their outputs outright -atj a big -figure, and a prominent feature of recent negotiations is the utter collapse of the National Dairy Association's can- . signment scheme. Even its authors have abandoned the bantling, apparently fecognising at last that the problem of marketing is beyond them and better left in the hands of those Wlid" have made tbe business the study of aMi eti»e. ;t

Mr. VV. Forbes, who is a candidate, for the Taimiuruntij seat, addressed tiic elec-

tors here on Friday evening 3M Wa£ :.c----corded an attentive hearing. In his address, which was on .similar lines to thill delivered by him at Waitara thf!: devious week, he declared himself an, exponent of the present Government,' 'ajid subscribed generally to the Opposition platform as laid down by Mr; Masseiy. Sir. Forbes stated his opinion that the Government had forfeited t)(e confidenjce of the people by their departure frqm liberal and democratic principles, ajid also 'by their extravagant administration. i-Ie advocated less borrowing, ajid contended that the public funds, were being used to further party interests, and deplored the fact that the Legislature hud lost its control of tlie 'public, purse, members of Parliament having degenerated into mere automata > registering the decrees of the executive.-ilT'ie public iservico was, lie averred, used is a means of rewarding party services, and the candidate strongly favored ja public service board, thereby curtailing to a great extent the enormous powers of patronage now wielded by 'Ministers. Mr. Forbes declared himself a strong supporter of the freehold tenure, believing that the hest productive results were to l)o obtained when settlers had the incentive of making the land their own. On the liquor question, he favored a bare majority vote, and had absolutely i|o time at all for the trade, which he characterised as a huge monopoly. . ' Mjr. Forbes proceeded to devote some little attention to the Waitara paper, which had published a leading article complaining that his policy was one of negation and not likely to prove attractive to the electors. This the candidate strenuously eomlbatted, and further stated', amidst some hilarity, that at any rate the electors knew which side of the fence he Mas on. Mr. Forbes opposed compulsory military training, considering the cost too <»reat for a young and sparsely scttled country; and he favored greater consideration towards volunteering together with a cadet system. In eoneludi'lijE, Mr. Forbes said there were many other matters he could speak on, but as he .would visit Tikorangi again before tile polling day, he would not detain the audience except to thank them for the jKitient hearing they had given him, and to assure tlieni that if elected he would serve them to the -best of his ability, and he felt sure they would not. regret the confidence he hoped would be placed in lviin. .Several questions of an unimportant nature were answered, and 011 the motion of Mil'. T, MeKenzie, seconded by Mr. Sncll, the candidate was accorded a hearty vole of thanks, and a similar vote to the chairman (Mr. J. Iline. jnn..) concluded tile meeting. >