MR MOORE AT WOODEND.

Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7716, 22 November 1890, Page 6

MR MOORE AT WOODEND.

Mr R Moore held a meeting at tbe Woodend Schoolroom on Wednesday, which was attended by about 160 persons. After his address, which was listened to with attention except on the part of a few, a number of questions were puf, and satisfactorily answered. There was, however, an evident intention on the parti:of one or two to treat the candidate unfairly by refusing to accept his answers with a good grace. To Mr Doggett he replied be' was not favorable to a laud nationalisation scheme on the unfair lines which the questioner advocated. There must always be exceptional cases in . which deserving officers of the public service were entitled to a grant' on retiring; but this was a matter in which great care and wisdom must be displayed. He was opposed to the pension system, but to repudiate the present pensions was impossible, as probably their payment could be enforced in Courts ot law. If the exports were increased, it was; natural to expect the population whichi had left the country would return as its prospects became brighter. To Mr Calder —If the Railway Commissioners had been engaged for-five, yearaj it wouldi be, mosC economical to give them a fair trial. Affairs connected with railway management could not be tested and adjusted in a few months, or in even one year or two; they had to remember the Commissioners* had a vast amount of detail work to deal with ,and» adjust. While not agreeing with all they did, he hoped, with the experience gained, there would.be a steady improvement effected in railway management. Mr Moore went on to reply to another question by saying he was not in favor of oppressive taxes on any properties, large or small. The incidence of taxation should be fair and equal, and his actions, he hoped, would be in the direction of reducing taxes which were a clog to industries* If an all round reduction could be effected the employers could give out more work and the' laborer would find his position benefitted. As he had already stated he was decidedly opposed to giving grants to private schools. He thought it only fair that the Government should encourage the formation of Volunteer Fire Brigades. M< S. Moody moved a vote of thanks to Mtf Moore, and said that he regretted that some interruptions had been caused, but he assured that gentleman it arose from persons imported into the district Mr F.Stevens seconded, and the motion was carried.