THE GENERAL ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 12 November 1914, Page 4

THE GENERAL ELECTIONS.

I .MR D. J. HUGHES' CAMPAIGN. In spite of the heavy rain last night, Mr D. J. Hughes, Opposition candidate for the Tuiauaki seat, addressed the electors at the Upper Mangorei school, amongst those preent being a lady who had braved the weather in. order to hear the ' speaker, jir Mitchell presided. Tlie address was chiefly on the lines of Mr Hughes' previous utterances, but he! laid groan stress on the importance of the pigraising industry, expressing the opinion that pig-raising and fattening had a great future before it in the Dominion, and especially in Taranaki—the home of the dairying industry. "Farm'ers," said the speaker, "could, I am sure, improve their breed of pigs and | methods of farming them a great deal. ( There rises to my mind a. plot of land ! ; close to Manaia which would make an '.excellent f>tate farm to demonstrate what could be done with the 'gintleman who pays the rent.' The Government I of the day ought to approach the bestj known breeders abroad and import di'f- ; ferent breeds of pigs and sell their ! progeny to dairymen. This little farm ! of land mentioned, which Ims an area i of about 00 acres, will grow everything i the pig requires for, food, and a model ! little farm could be established. From i years of practical work amongst piopt, 'I have no hesitation in saying that from what I have seen all over Taranaki I "Dennis' is not housed and looked after jas he should be. This- is not right, as |he has an illustrious record in other i lands for multiplying f s. d. As I am a supporter of a poltical party who are going back to /power, and who have i always helped the dairy farmer, -1 aim 'iquitc sate a helping Jiand would' be given to this branch of farming, but it requires that there should be pvactie-A'. farnicTs in the House to advance these ech ernes." Great interest was taken in the address, and the speaker received the usual vote of thanks.

TEE TAIBIARUNUI SEAT. Mr P. W. Shortland. of ■Taumiirunui, notifies in our advertising columns that Tit is standing as an independent Reform candidate, pledging himself to support progressive legislation emanating from either partv, except VhUt on a no-con-fidence ' motion he will vote for the present Government. He plcrlpe-s himself to go to the poll, and hopes before leng to address the electors at Waitwft and other centres on this coast.