AUCKLAND ELECTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 842, 14 June 1910, Page 5

AUCKLAND ELECTION.

ADDRESS BY MR. DAVIS. STRONG WORDS BY MR. POOLE. . (By TeleffriDh—Press Association.) Auckland, June 13. Mr. George Davis, Labour ajid Temperance candidate for Auckland East byelection, addressed a crowded meeting in the Choral Hall to-night. Mr. E. French presided, and there wero also on the plart-' form Messrs. C. H. Poole, T. E. Taylor, and D. M'Laren, M.P.'s. Mr. Davis, who had a splendid hearing, and who spoke much better than on the previous occasion, advocated nationalisation of tlia land, the bare majority vote on the licensing question, full rights of Civil Servants, equal opportunities of education, agricultural education in farming districts, and the referendum. He advocated the abolition of the Upper House, declaring that the qualification to get a seat at present was to be a "political boodler." If it was necessary to get the confidence of the people to send men to the House of Representatives, it was also necessary that the same principle should be applied to the Upper House, and if the representatives of the people did then duty properly the country could very well be spared the expense of tie Old Men's Refuge." He contended that ■the Cabinet should be chosen by Parliament. He advocated amongst other things State ownership of monopolies, statutory preference to unionists, the right to State Bank with the sole right to note issue, and appointments in the Defence Force to be made only according to merit. • ' - Mr. Taylor contended that the workers required better representation in Parliament. Mr. Poole protested against the return to Parliament of Mr. Myers, who stood for the most brutal and degrading monopoly the world had ever known, and he thought that the statement made by Mr. Myers that he was not in favour of NoLicense iv-as a challenge to the intelli-gence-of the community, and he thought that savage and brutal acknowledgment would be resented by the electors on Thursday next. The candidate received a vote of con. fidence. SPEECH BY MR, MYERS. 1 (By Tclograph-Presa Association.) Auckland,' June 13. In connection with the Auckland East election, Mr. Myers addressed a largely attended meeting at Newton to-night. Hβ traversed the lines of his .previous speeches, and replied at some length to attacks that had been made upon him in regard to his connection with "the Trade." He said that, he was proud to be a brewer, and that he had-done more for temperance in Auckland that a great many Prohibitionists had done. ~ He had temperance men on his committee, men who would no doubt vote for No-licenso when the next local option poll came round. The matter was in the hands of the people, and there it should Temain. He also defended his aotion in regard to the municipal works inaugurated during the time that he had been Mayor. RβfeTring to the question of southern influence, he said that they could not even have an election in Auckland without an attempt being made to bring southern influence to bear. This remark is-un-derstood to have reference to Mr. T. E. Taylor's presence in Auckland. . A vote of thanks to and confidence in Mr. Myers was passed.