POLITICAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9123, 24 June 1908, Page 5

POLITICAL.

There are no appointments of Legislative Councillors expiring this year by effluxion of time, and the "New Zealand Times" has it on the authority of the Prime Minister that none are contemplated by the Governi ment. > Mr Loudon, ex-Mayor of Dunedin, is definitely out for the Taieri seat in the Government interest. The man who has felled the forest and crushed the fertV who has ploughed the land and stocked it, is not generally the Socialist agitator, sajs the "Hawke's Bay Herald." The man who has made the wealth of the Dominion available and ha 3 turned i, into money, is not generally disposed to share the profits of fyis labour with all and sundry. He knows that he has made the land profitable, and you will not persuade him that anyone else has a right to oust him from it. There is land still to be had, and we recommend that som!e of th 3 Socialists should be given the clun:o of getting a section of their own. They might find ih3 work toe hard, and return to the town to talk about their share in thu land. But if thev, succeeded we are certain "that they would not listen to any one else's claim to come in ahd share tha benefits of their labour. The "Investors' Review," of May 2nd, states: —Sir Joseph Ward is nothing if not optimistic, but if New Zealand really has gathered in a revenue for the financial year ended March 81st last amounting to £9,055,940, then indeed it should be prosperous. ,Thts revenue exceeds by £6f)6,870 that of the previous year, p.nd Sir Joseph Warf boasts that there is an available balance of £850,000 in the Treasury after paying off Treasury bill3 to the amount of £lso,OiiO and handing £BOO,OOO from revenue to the Public Works Department. Since 1891 this department has altogether received £6,430,000, which Sir Joseph apparently asks us to bdieve the ordinary revenue provided, last year pub lie works altogether absorbed £1,855,590, and presumably over £1,000,000 Of this was borrowed, and tho probability is that when the Budget figures appear New Zealand will be found to have again added upwards of £2,000,000 to the aggregate of its deO\ While that borrowing system lasts it is impossible to believe in either the present or the future prosperity of the country. BY TELEGRAPH—PKESS ASSOCIATION. GISBORNE, June 23. Mr W. D. S. Mac Donald has been chosen Government candidate for the Bay of Plenty. Mr Mac Donald has been an active member of the Farmers' Union since inception, being a member of the Motu branch, which is the most influential. in the Auckland district. jHe is a vicepresident of the Provincial Executive, and also president of the Farmers' Club, and has been many years associated with local politics in various capacities