REPRESENTATION OF TIMARU.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2081, 5 August 1890, Page 3

REPRESENTATION OF TIMARU.

! Mr W. F. Aplin addressed the elec 1 tors of Timaru last Friday evening. There was a very large attendance, the rooms being packed to overflowing. At the candidate's request Mr Thomas Langdon took the chair, and bespoke a fair hearing for the candidate. He claimed to be a laborer, who earned his bread by the sweat of his brow, and he felt the laborers could elect whom they pleased. He would like to. see capital and labor working hand in band, and each having representation in Parliament. The country was not properly settled, and large estates were not paying a fair portion of taxes, and it would be a splendid investment to give them 10 per cent, over owners' valuation. He named several estates in South Canterbury which were under valued. He favored village settlement,and blamed the Government for not having spent the whole of the vote for that purpose. He suggested that a commission should be appointed to inquire into the way people were treated on stations in New Zealand. He was a tradesunionist, and was in favor of free education up to the 4th standard. He was brought up to regard Catholics as heretics, but found them as good as anyone else, and never heard them use blasphemous words. He was in favor of giving them capitation. Sir Harry Atkinson was a good man, but he believed Sir John Hall wjuld be the next Premier, and he would rather support Mr Ballance than him. He was in favor of the Hare system. They wanted more popu'ation. The increase in sheep on small holdings was 55 per cent., while the increase on large holdings was only 10 per cent. After a large number of questions were answered a vote of thanks was carried, ard the meeting closed.