THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10420, 11 September 1911, Page 5

THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

MASTERTON SEAT. Ma- G. R. Sykes will address the electors at Kaiparoro on Wedaetsday next, Rongokokako on THiursJay, and Kakarikii on. Fridiay. j .'Mr A. H. Herbert speaks at K.aiIfteiroro to-ndgjhlt, and at Uiuxaua on AVedlnetsdlay. The Efcetahuna Express -statics i that Mr Herbert lias received a re- | qtmiition from the Pkhiatua uis- \ ftricfc, asking him to "withdraw fiom the- contest for- the Master ton &<?at and contest the Pahiatua seat.. The. requisition was sent by electors impressed with; Mr Herbert after hearing ham speak at Pongaroa. "Do you thmk it tihe correct adiing \ for a member of Parliament durihg an election campaign to tell the people thlat if tihley want assistance .n getting money from the Advances .to Settlers' Office,- they sihouM communicate witbjum?" was a question asked Mr Herbert at his imieetfciing. "Oerfhainly not," rqp'Hed Mr Herbert.■ "TCis is the I am u,p against, a corruption which pervades the party in power., and wtKioh sibould be siwept away. Every , legitimate applicant for money should be placed on an. equal Sooting, and there shtould be no need to invokk the of a memlber of Parliament in obtaining it." -' 'I liave been taken to task by ivfr Hormsby, a Liberal candidate for ffche W'airarapa seat," said Mr Herbert at his Waterfall® meeting on Thursday evening, "for daring to assert that waniton extravagance has i>eein indulged in by the Ward administration-. Mr Hornsby wants me' to say where the borrowed millions ihlave been mis-spent. I chalfongo Ihim to say where the money has "been spent. He doesn't know, nor does anyone else, with the exception lof Cabinet Ministers. It certainly ihias not been spent in the Waterfall te distriot, where the people hiave for tlhirty years been witihoult metalled roadis, nor ha® it been spent in purchasing estates whach. have been offered the Government in the Masterton electorate for closer settle-1 meet."