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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2660, 29 July 1887, Page 3

TO THE ELECTORS'OF WAIRARAPA NORTH. QENTLEMEN-" AS the present Parliament will boou cease to exist, 1 have the honor to. again otier myself'aß your representative. 1 shall hope to be able to meet you shortly t the various centres of the district. 1 am, getitiemon, i Your obi'iitent servant. 2018 GEORGE BEEtHAM.

imYILLg ELECTION. TO THE ELECTORS. I bog to inform you that it is my intention to contest the representation of WOOI3VILLE at the approaching general election, and that I shall take an early opportunity of addressing the electors in the various centres of the district. I am, Gentlemen,' Your Obedient Servant, 2615 W. W. McOARDLE,

WOOi)VILLE ELECTION. Napier, 18th July, 188". To Messrs— G. B. Bradford .. Josiah Lynn J. 11. Monleitli John Harris James Allardice W. Bierre G. D. Hamilton James Wall W. J. Graham lienry Smith i)\ (J. dliugar E. 0. Olsen J. W, Carlilo Duncan Guy Henry Ellison, And 202 other Electors of the Woodvillo District, QENTLEMEN,— I sincerely thank you for the honor you have conferred upon me, by asking me to allow myself to. be nominated at the approaching General Election to represent you in Parliament. In reply, I bavo to stato that I will contest tho election against' all comers, and if elected I would support a Government introducing measures to the following effoct Economy and retrenchment in ovory branch of tho Civil Service, aud the. amalgamation of Offices, Tho reduction of the bouorariiyu, and of the number of members of b'jtb Houses, Tho completion of the railway to Pulroerston, and the construction of the Umi to Auckland, ami the extension of the lino from Eketuhuna to Pahiatua. The opening up of Crown lands, and the acijuisition of Native Lands for settlement The cessation of borrowing except for the works mentioned, until the finances of the colony have been placed on a sound footin".

The amendment or the Land Act, by tho repeal of tho Perpetual Leasing system, and by giving greater facilities for selectors to take up Deferred Payment Lands. The repeal of Property Tax and the introduction of a Land and Income Tax, The amendment of the Education Reserves Act to enable the Government to use the revenue from the Reserves for Secondary Education for the purpose of Primary Education, The reform of the presimt system of railway management. I shall address the Eloctors at all the coutres of settlement throughout the district on dates tobe advertised, when you will find me supporting true Liberal measures, and that my knowledge of the district enahles me to form reliable opinions on the subject of your local requirements. lam, Gentlemen. Your Obedient Servant, HORACE BAKER,

MASTERTON ELECTION. TO THE ELECTORS, HAVING announced my candidature at the approaching election I have the pleasure to submit for your consideration the political platform which, if returned, will command my earnest support 1. Encouragement to Colonial Industries so that labor and capital within the Colony may be fully and prosperously employed, and. labor and. Capital from without attracted to the Colony, 2. The substitution of a progressive land tax, from which mudorate areas will be exempted, for the present proporty tax in order that land monopoly may be rendered unprofitable, and the improvement of property encouraged. 3. The maintenance), in a state of thorough efficiency, of tho present system of primary education.

continuance of the" existing liberal land laws; and the expansion of the special and village settlement systems. fl, The stoppage as. far as practicable and judicious, of thi! system of borrowjug. (i. Abolition of.tho Upper House, 7, Decentralisntioa ; the restoration of the proper functions of local Government so that log rolling in the Legislature may and the duties of the Public Works Department may be distributed among the settlers and localities concerned. 8. A system of vigorous retrenchment-' under which ornate but useless branches of the civil service will receive skilful attention and state pansiona shall gradu' ally cease.

I shall have much pleasure in entering moro fully into' details at the various public meeting which it iB my intention to address, 1 am, Gentlemen, " * Uwvlyi Masterton, July' Oth, 1887. ' 264 MASTERTON ELECTION MR. A. W. HOGG L address the electors as under—- /. MA URICEVILLE ' ' SATURDAY, July 30. " OPAKI -Schoolhouse,' MONDAY, > August 1. ,■ DEE Y E rtTOK—Schoolhouse, WED- ; NESDAY, August 3. TAUERU-THURSDAY, Au?usl 4. ' . TlNUi—Town Hall, SATURDAY August 6, AT EACH PLACE AT 8 ?,m, 2661 Your obedient Servant, A. W. HOGG.