MR MASSEY AT WINTON

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10481, 18 November 1911, Page 5

MR MASSEY AT WINTON

' A GREAT RECEPTION. tiy 1 titAjufi" I'teen A ssociuttonWINTOX, Last Niigtat. - \V. F. Massey addressee! a meeting in th» Winton Skatinig Rinfk tQiis The, building was crowded, t\\|o thousand person® being pireseaiit, and. a- number being unable to giaki admission. Mir Miassey mt&t with a great ■ reception, the crowd dhiee'ring Mm for several minutes'. On bis • rising to . spefck, hte ag]ain receivedan o vatiorii., fie. saw* he gjlad that- interest was beinjg taken in politti'Ss in Soytihland at tbje Pfreseint v •■.."ELfB- tihi© downfall ofSir. Wnlfrid Laurier ill Cknada, and exposed the opinion that a similar fate awaited 1 Sir Josep(h Wlaid. He said the Government hiadi xibt a pplicy, and hje mentioned the pdfliilng up of the mdreibtedoies® oir tlbiei Dominion by £19,000,000 in five yiearSi. The hiadi to be paM, and. tlhle cost of, liivang hiad gjon® up. Speafeing on the land question, be said tfluey had. lost some of thfi.,' pick | of tlnsiir population on account of the . ■land Bfytsteim. Young men. bad. gone) to other countries, wtare they wette .better treated'. Thl© Opposition had., cflfean liquids, amid offered clean servrioe. Tib© : country coulid not go j on btorrcwslng and palling up the tar- , ation as wws being dtoius. R/ewirtaing I. to the Jand question, he asked whiat land, policy thfe Government had. The Opposition! wanted closelr * settlement ■audi Security of tenure. He dealt wiithi the Government's several LflJid Bfll«v and' siaid it was imppMble for si poor man doing on tibe l&ndto ob.taW the freehold." The deferred pay- . mfcnt system was meoitdoned last session'for thie '■ of vote* catdhtog/'. 'Nio man m the> present CovwrjUMenit was fit for thie position ,;ttf Minister of Lands. Thece was never such.; # keen demiand for, ty act as at tibe present moment,' i ery encouragement should be* v g)iven... • ieffctleirieait' btecaiise the country depended on the' agricultural and pastoraJ ..industries. Hie knew, of endiowihfeait land in r '-oar which men wicuJid not settle, owing to the : iinsecuritv renewable iea&e' r tenure; 1 ' a flaw in ime.iT!|l>er!S of. the Opposition, the Gbvemnmenit luad to 0o back tif 1904, but lie dad not need to go back that far. He refertred to Mir Isftt's i statement regardiing tlhe Govern- j ment. that they wsere aill Opposition, J 'aiid he contendied 1 !bnt Afr fVnvlds | leifsfc tlie because it hlad no' democratic principle® to support. In reigard to advances to wxM-kers, liie qiuoted. a n-.totion moved by him (uVlir Mjasisey} in I&C6, in proof of the . stoitjemnent tlhat he wtbb tlie ftrst' to make thie/pinbipoisit/!. Thi® was voted: against by Sifr Joserolh , wjbo a.fit/etrwairds iiitroduoed a: similar .m)Qasura. A sum of £14,000,000 in tlie 1 Savimgis Bank was borrowed by thte Gowrnment i at lower interest tiharL irfemey bpfrowed iin. Londoii. -This sliioiulidi b© lent to. settler® of" tlife .Dtoininion, ; wttu> required it. The .p'rospeirdifcy of th'e countvy wiaß not diii«B »to thie, Govern miemt, oecans© nfo GtoveTmimien,t: could be worse than, thie plreseint one. , H© dealt Mokau cas© on simdflar lines' as in previous &peedies,' and sa.id fhe Oipposidlon© its utnciost to cause thi&: ..Government to. :.hiave lands tlirown opeai fior settSlement, including Native lands. \ It had almost pfone doTOi ;on.. its knees to. tlieGloveauntent. T ' ' m; At "the conclusion of Mr Mass©y 5 « addtrel&s, tihte following motion carnied by a larpse majority:— ''That a vlote of thsanks be accorded Mr Miaasey, and thlat thais. meetitag is of 'opinion thai the time had arrived ■nilieii evlery effort should l be made to remove, the Ward Government from office." • A big Ward followiiig wa® present. but Mir Maissey bad a large majority -niiitli Mm. iMiniMias&py w,as cihieered, and "He's | a JlcPly Good Fellow" was saing.