MR BUICK AT PALMERSTON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10477, 14 November 1911, Page 5

MR BUICK AT PALMERSTON.

SUGGESTED COALITION. A VIGOROUS SPEECH. j By Telegrovh—Presa Association. PALMSTOx'n., La*t Night. Mr Buick, M.df., addressed a crtowded meeting a,t the Opera House to-wight. T(he Mayor presided In opening Ms election campaign, and replying to Mir MeNab, the o£n.l dodlate siand tjhat if lie did not d'mor'e m PiatrHiamemt in the next teai years than Mr. McNab had done in <ms thuirteen and a half, hie would be prepared to retire. Referring to tihle statemieint that Mr Massey had not been. appimaahted tio join, the Mtoistiry, Mir Buick said h,e believed Mr Masisey's statement, when he- said he was. He (Mr, Buick) siaid that ne luad not been two months in Parliament before he was asked if he ' woufld join, the. Ministry—a coaJition to keep, down the working man. (Ltanghter). He was approadied by a suppontiei- of the Government, and asked'if he wfould coalesce, with the Government party to fight the labour ifntexiests. (A voice: They were pulimg your leg!) (He replied that he would ratlheri ten. times ha.ve a Labour admlinis.trati.on than the present adrainistuiatlon iior h.e knew wjhat labour would do, and lie didn't 'know what the present Governmemt would do. Mr Buick criticised tlfe Government in regard to the Mjacdonald cage, and the employment of the Chief Justice to go to Rarotonga, condemning tlie Judges receiving mtare than their salaries. "For God's, sialce," he pleaded, "let us have our judges, pure." He eonJdemned tflil© presentation of a Dreadnought, by Sir Jloseph Ward ais bom'baistio hysteria; but lie would not object to filfby Dreadnoughts' if needled. Referring to the Mokau transaction, he said Messris SShdlay and Dfalzieil'l dominated everything, and there was a; snspicdioai thai Sir John FiindTay and Sir Jiamea Carroll had worked a ptolint. Mr 1 Buick denounced the Budget as a ' 'conglomerated masts, of verbosity." A vote of thanks and confidence was declared carried'.