THE GENERAL ELECTION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13529, 10 November 1911, Page 7

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

THE OROUA SEAT. Mr. Guthrie at Fending. (Per United Press Association.) FEILDING, November 10. Mr D. 11. Outline, M.P., Opposition candidate for Orona, spoke here last night. 110 criticised the Government's policy, legislature, and administration, and said that the Don. G. Fowlds’ resignation was a further sign of disintegration. The public dc'd was .£8(1 11s per Head, which was higher than that of the 'ommon wealth, lie condemned the co-operative workcis’ system; also Government waste of money, and traversed the five million loan. Taxation, ho said, had increased under S■ r Joseph Ward from seven millions in 190<i7 to nine millions in 1910-11. The candidate favoured the freehold for all tenants, condemned the native land policy, and supported the whole Opposition platform. NAPIER’S LABOUR CANDIDATE.' NAPIER, November 9. Mr Henry Bill, ■ Chief Inspector of Schools for Hawke’s . Bay, to-night consented to stand as the Labour candidate for Napier, being assured by the representatives of Labour Unions of a practically unanimous Labour vote.

THE OTAKI SEAT. -LEVIN, November 10. Mr Moncton, the.official Reform Party’s candidate for the Otaki electorate, addressed a meeting at Levin last night. He declared that Sir Joseph Ward's scheme of taxation was directed against the farmer and the industrious working men and f'e mechanic. He contended that although Sir James Carroll at Levin this week had pleaded the cause of the Maori with all the natural and specious eloquence of that hardly-treated and downtrodden race, the race was pampered at the European’s expense. He assorted it received in rents from Europeans enough money to yield incomes of illpO per.nnnum for every Maori man, woman, and-child, Referring to the New Zealand Shipping Company’s manager’s letter stating that the Government had npt paid the Suez Canal dues (,£2400) to divert the Ruapehu's route on the occasion of Sir Joseph Ward’s return, Mr Monckton asserted that he never said so, but now asked who paid the company for having paid the dues? The candidate received a vote of thanks and confidence.