POLITICAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 91, 7 October 1911, Page 5

POLITICAL.

1 "VVETJJXGTON SUBURBS. By,. Telcgraph-j-Press Association. ' i. -■'■ ' . Wellington, Friday. '# l-> #• 'S- .Williams- announces hi* withdrawals from' the Suburbs election contest, owing to business reasons. in?. MASSEY ,MAY OPPOSE SIR J "-•WXDLAY. ,-X ■: *;^« : ?Wcllington, Yesterday. ' H orrt Ims been received in Wellington from Auckland that Mr. Massey intends to contest the Parnell seat against Sir John Findlay. Mr. Massey deelines to make any •statement on the matter.

Sir John, Findlay says he has heard ' the report from various sources and feels that the suggestion is one of the highest compliments tho Opposition can pay to his candidature.

THE PARNELL SEAT. ' Auckland, Lti.*t Night. Mr. E. fj. b. Moss, Opposition candidate for Parnell, opened his caropaum to-night. Referring to the retirement of -Mr. !Uwry, he said that if anyone deserved a call to the Upper House Mr La wry did. He taxed. Sir John Findlay vwith insincerity in declaring when hj« ' came to Auckland that he was not aware that Ji,.. La Wry waa go j ng Sir John, he said, was well known itt the .south as the author of a book on " humbugs, and-he quoted •the following passages. Page 5: "Spouter, the politician, who fools the crowd with glorious and gig-antic lies." Page 30: "H'Sw luc> • will make a millionaire and silence o, sage, but he who aspires to be a leader of men must perforce be a humbug." (Laughter.) He was an Oppositionist because he did not believe in the Govand Mr. Massey was an honest man. The candidate received an excellent hearing, and was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence. Mr. Moss, in reply, promised "to shake things up."

THE EGMONT SEAT. The announcement. that the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. T. Mackenzie, is to stand for the Eguiont seat should be a source of keen satisfaction, not .only to the dairy farmers of that electorate and of Taranaki in general, but to milk-producers throughout the Dominion, says the Canterbury Times. No Minister of Agriculture has exhibited the same interest in the dairying activities of his Department as has Mr. Mae- i kenzie. The. excellent standing of the dairy produce division with the fanning community is largely due to his wise discretion, while he is responsible for such important forward movements a» pasteurisation of dairy fac'tory by-products, a sane method of dairy inspection, the appointment of a dairy produce grader at the Home end, and the establishment of the monthly journal of the Department. In addition to this he has, developed on a sound principle the most successful work the experiment stations have in progress for the advancement of dairying. This is the se- . curing of high-type pedigree stock of a. milk-producing strain for the State herds. The Weraroa herd of Holsteina is- now the finest collection of deepmilking Holsteins to be found in the Southern Hemisphere, and a bull, it is reported, will soon be on its way from America to provide a change of blood. Then at Moumahaki Mr. Mackenzie has wisely decided to establish a herd of utility Ayrshires. There are alreadyi at Moumahaki a number of good Ayrshires, but shortly the hejd will 'he strenghtened by the addition of the finest collection of milk-record stock to be introduced to this country. These arc to ibe selected by Mr. j. Dunlop, the .Scottish Agricultural Commissioner who recently visited the Dominion, and who is probably the, foremost man today in Scotland ns-ocinted with the great movement for the development of the Ayrshire on utility lines by reason of herd-testing work, having assumed the mantle of the Me Mr. John Spoir, the pioneer in the revolution of the Ayrshire. This introduction of milk-record Ayrshire stock is of marked significance, ■. for time will probably prove that, given the deep-milking type, no race of dairy cattle will prove so useful to the general run of New Zealand dairymen as the hardy little Ayrshire. Altogether, Mr. Mackenzie deserves well of New Zealand dairymen, and those who know him and his work on behalf of the industry will be gratified to see him contesting a seat in a North Island dairying constituency. They have no fear of the result. If there is any gratitude in human nature he should be able to command victory in any rural electorate in the Dominion.

I LAND AGENTS BILL. A deputation representing land agents of different parts of the Dominion waited upon the Hon. D. on Friday in support of the Land Agents Bill of Mr. Witty. It wa* urged by the speakers that the Government should take up the Bill and endeavor to pass it this sessio*. They considered that some amendments suggested that every land agent should be required to have a registered office. It was stated, that the land agents of Auckland, Christchurch, Wanganui, Masterton, Keilding, Danncvirke and Levin, as well as those places represented in tho deputation, had expressed themselves practically unanimously in accord with the representations made. Messrs< Hogan, Newman, and Guthrie, M'.s.P., as , well as Mr. Witty, who introduced the deputation, asked the Minister to take up the Bill. The Minister said he was in sympathy with the Bill, and would, lay the views of the deputation before the Government.