POLITICAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1169, 24 April 1884, Page 3

POLITICAL.

At a meeting in Papanui, called by the Reform Association, the attendance being about seventy, the following resolution was passed unanimously : ‘ That the history of the Ministry has been recklessness and extravagance without any due consideration for the true wants of the people, regardless as to what means they have to adopt for the purpose of maintaining thetnselvot in power, and without a definite policy for the future. This policy calls for the reprobation of the people, and demands that every legitimate step should be taken to ensure their speedy expulsion from office,’

Mi Munro, M.H.R. for Buller, addressed his constituents on Monday night. After refeiring at length to local matters, he contended that the Colonial Tieasurei had every reason to expect the reuenue would sustain itself, and urged the large payments for interest on borrowed money, private and public, as the chief cause of the commercial depression. He supported an increase of the property tax to one penny, and an imposition of a progressive land tax, the latter fo revenue purposes only. If the Government wanted land for settlement they should repurchase it. He supported the increased railway tariff, and believed Parliament would justify the action of the Government to-morrow. He spoke strongly against Mr Rolleston’s administration of the land, and expressed an opinion that his resignation would not weaken the Ministry. He contended that the county system was the best extant for local government, and thought Federat'on premature, and the nationalisation of the land Utopian, He would go to the House an independent supporter of the Government, and would judge of the record that was brought against them Mr Munro received a vote of confidence.