POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10499, 11 December 1911, Page 5

POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

MASTERTON SEAT.

There is every indication that the contest between Messrs Hogg and Sykes at the second ballot will' bj keen and. eloye. . Both candidates and tttieisr comnEiittees are working.. energetically. Mr Hogg visited Eiketahiuna on Friday, and on Saturday motored oot to other parts or the district. Ho ■will' address the electors at Alfredton to-nigjht, and- at EfcetaWna tomorrow nigjbt. It nas< been arranged that he will address' meetings at Kiuxipuni, Masiterton and Lansloiyno on Wednesday night. MisiS Hogg has proceeded to the tfktsh. districts to deliver addresses on behalf of her father.

Mr G. R. Sykies spoke at Hukaniai /and Alfredton on Saturday. To-d'ay ihe will 1 visit Rlabaunui and Pongar-' pc. To.-mora-ow liagM he will be at Mauriceyalle Bast, and on Wednesday might at-Masterton. It is understood that consdderablo ifinancial and other.support has beien extended to> Mr Hogg hVhis> second effort.

: Mr A. L: Herdman, M.P., will speak at Eketahiuna to-night, and ,at (interests' cf Mr Sykes and the Re? tform 'Party. . . $> .Ttiifiivstated that.a' proposal was jryade to. obtain a speech from .Sir Jfais. Jparanoll im support.o£ fcJjP .can-; dftdature of Mt Hogg, but thi&.candi-'-' date preferred tot be without"i"tl ity" is evident, therefore, that tifafc Gov-, eminent supporters- are throwing •thteir Ml weight into tihte election j in .the.interests of Mr Hbggi- : -< Mr J. Ebustead presided.at . Sykes' -meeting; at 'Alfeedtonr on Saturday night. There was a good.lattendance, and the candidate '. \\jis, an totlruoßaast'ic reception.] 'At (the clcse erf nis address he was accorded a htearty v wEe otf thantog. "ft" p\toces>Bfa\l mieetinig v was held at JBJukaiijxi.'a| 1 o : c4ock on' Mjbnday.

The combined committees of-Messrs A. H... HerSftrt ahd:G>R. Sykes met at Eketahunia on 'Saturday 'li'l^lit. 1 Mr W. A> (dhairroan of Mr (Eona^ittee)' w^«,i : ; eJebted.; chhirrnan of &tsd}> sM 'art? 'of in- the interests of the Reform candidate 'Was decided upon.