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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3379, 21 October 1879, Page 4

Electoral should be given to men to acquire freeholds is a subject upon which all are agreed, and assuming that purchasers might expect more liberal terms from the Government than from private holders, it is wise that the Government should be the purchaser from tho natives in the first place. Such being the case, the object of the administration in ray opinion should be the speedy acquisition of all the waste lands of the Colony, and, being acquired, surveyed, and cut up, the land should be thrown open upon favorable terms to men willing to occupy, and in time to purchase under a system of deferred payments. The revenue derived from the sale of »uch lands would reimburse the Government for the first cost, and besides might furnish the means of opening up the country by roads, and probably defray to some extent the cost of the branch lines of railways, which will require construction after the main or trunk lines are formed from the loans raised for that purpose upon the credit of the whole colony. It is scarcely necessary for me to refer to the question of Education, as for-years I have been an advocate of the present secular, free, and compulsory system, and if elected will strongly resist any attempt to alter an Act which has been found to place within the reach of every child in the colony the means of getting a good liberal education, and which has since its introduction bestowed such blessings upon 'the youth of New Zealand. The claims of this electorate to a fair proportion of public works, the early completion of the Thames and Waikato Railway, the construction of a line to the East Coast, the acquisition of the freehold of the goldfield, the claims of the local governing bodies to continued monetary assistance from tbe Government, the amendment of the County and Municipal Corporations Act, the throwing open of the Upper Thames lands for selection, the * question of aiding our timber and other industries, and a number of other matters, all bearing upon the best interests of this electorate, are objects that would receive my attention should I have the honor to be returned as your representative. I shall, at an early date, address you at the various centres of population, and at greater length make- known my opinions upon such subjects as are of interest to this constituency. WE McCULLOUGH. Business Notices CHRONOMETER HOIJBI SHOETLAND. M. J.WILKES PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER, Y^ALLS ATTENTION TO HIS STOCK \J or WATCHES, /BLOCKS, \J JEWELLERY, el WEDDING RINGS, IT XT AKB JUIBEPERS. Spectacles for Sale. All kinds of Watches & Clocks CLEANED AND REPAIRED • At Auckland Pbices. ESTABLISHED 1867. POLLEN STREET, SHOKTLAND. T)Y SPECIAL APPOINTMENT. Si /§/c.DEL'EAu\s\ §§ U\ AUCKLAND. }dj wm 8_ ._ § MADE ONLY TO OEDEE, AND TO MEASUREMENT. 840 ; IMFEBIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. TJBSORIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,050,000, rmLLIAM MoCULLOUGH, EV E NIN G ST A B OFFICE, Gbahambtowk, Hal been appointed Agent at the Thames for above -well-known and old-established Company, and is prepared to do bueinew on the most favourable terms. W. H. AskflTßOHff, 32 Agent. PRINTING executed ia any Color, and JT the best designs, at the Stab Office, Albert street Samples to b# sees on the pramisee HANDBILLS for Drapers, Gzoesn and Storekepers generally. , Any SiM or Color At thMlvnrar* Stab Ofiet