RAGLAN REFORMERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 13

RAGLAN REFORMERS.

MR SEAVILL'B CANDIDATURE,

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

TE AWAMUTU, Friday.

The only difference between the Reform party and the Country party was that the Country party wanted things done more quickly, remarked Mr. W. Seavill, the Reform candidate for Raglan, in an election address to-night. The Country party, he asserted, could do very little good, and would do much better if it stayed with the Reform party. After declaring that many of the United party candidates were men who had not been able to secure nomination as Reformers, Mr. Seavill attacked the Labour party, which he said was keeping its extreme policies in the background at election time.

Mr. Seavill said he would give no pre-election pledges, except that he would vote for the Reform party in the event of a no-confidence motion. He did not think the average farmer should pay land tax as, he considered it was taxing a man at the wrong end of his endeavours. He advocated a more equitable system of levying the hospital rate so that men of wealth with little land should pay a greater share of the cost of hospital maintenance. He considered the constitution of the Arbitration, Court should be amended to permit of the general public being represented on the Bench. He was opposed to prohibition and the bare-jpajority issue. The candidate was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence.