WELLINGTON NORTH SEAT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1225, 6 September 1911, Page 8

WELLINGTON NORTH SEAT.

—V DR. IZARD'S CANDIDATURE.

Br. Izard, a candidate for the Wellington Xorth seat in Parliament, addressed electors on Tinakori Road last night. The candidate spoke on a number of subjects. Dealing with tliu high prices of. some of the necessaries of life (such as meat and butter), Dr. Izard said that he did.not think the remedy, so far as the workers were concerned, lay .in increased wages. If wages were increased the prices would go- up, too. Ho said that in the matter of. legislation the .Government had not overstepped the mark, State trading was a debatable subject.' How-far should tho State trade? The Government ' had come to the rescue at tho time of 1 the Bank crisis in 1S!)4. He • thought it was a. pity that the State had not taken over the Bank, and made it -a State institution. lie thought that after what ' the.State had done it was a pity the profits were now going to the shareholders instead of to the State. (Applause.) The ' result of Stato. Fire Insurance had been ■ that insurance rates were cheaper now than before the State intervened. The ' Government had'not interfered, except to < rectify abuses, and that was the duty of the Government in the interests fif' the "• people. Mr. Herdman, in a recent ] speech, had - spoken of reckless aflminis- 1 tratiou, and what. Mr. Herdman should have done was "iven definite instances of the alleged reckless administration. Anyone could talk the generalities Mr. Horilman had talked. Not long ago there, had been charges of corruption—Tammanyism —and what had become known as" the " Hine charges had been investigated. The result of the investigation was that, there was only one charge proved, and that was against a private member, and the Government had nothing at all to do with it. After briclly running over the v platform ho advocated, Dr. Izard impressed on his ' audienc"; that: he stood "as ;t supporter of the present Liberal Government as against the Conservative' Opposition, and I stand pledged to support the Government on a no-confidence motion, and on other matters to vote as I think best." . lie was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence.