WELLINGTON SOUTH.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1307, 9 December 1911, Page 6

WELLINGTON SOUTH.

' MR, WEIGHT IN THE OPEN AIR. In. spite of wjndy, threatening weather and a littlo rain, Mr. Wright opened his second-ballot campaign last evening with three open-air meetings. At Brooklyn, tho candidate received a

vote of thanks and confidence. Speaking at Howard Street, Mr. Wright contended that the principal thing to bo done at present was to turn tho Ward Government out of office, and the only.effective \yay 'to; do that was to vote for a candidate. vrhp. was pledged, like himself, .to vote, against the Government. Further elucidating the position in tcply to' questions, Mr. Wright said : it appeared to be impossible for the' Labour partj- to get more than, four members mto tho House, and bo small a number would not be able to do very much. It seemed that i)hat the Labour party hoped for "was. to bo able to hold tho balance between the other two parties, and ho thought that would result in a condition of things.that would not.be tolerated very, long. Ho understood that to turn the Ward Government out. was not tho object of the Labour party, and if that' was not done, tho present Government w;ould probably throw Labour a ■■ sop now ~ and then, and go. on having its own way. ■ If, on the other hand, tho Government was defeated now it would go to pieces and then a strong Labour party 'could be formed; In reply to another question, Mr. Wright saiil he had already made it clear that ho would voto against the freehold, even if it meant voting against the Eeform party on a No-Confidence motion. At the corner of Wallaco Street and Finlay Street, Mr. Wright said that the fight in Wollington South had been conducted, so far, on good lines, .and ho hoped it would bo so to tho end of the chapter. It was a mistake to Buppose that the present Government had a monopoly of Liberal legislation. ' None of the Liberal' legislation,' such as the old age pensions and advances to workers, 'would bo repealed by the Eeform party. No party that came into power would take away those reforms. The'programmo of tho Eeform party was decidedly Liberal, except in regard to the question of land tenure. They intended to bring down the cost of living by reducing the tariff on necessaries, to open lip Native lands, reform tho LegislalivevCouncil by making it elective,-pass the Daylight Saving Bill, and reduce the pension ago for. women from C 5 to 60. These measures were not Conservative, but progressive. In asking his friends and supporters to continue the efforts on his behalf, Mr. Wright said he felt. suro of being at the tap next Thursday. ' (Applause.) He had interviewed some of tho people who had voted for tho two candidates who did not get into tho second ballot, and ho was going to receive tho support of one of the candidates, and his supporters, right out. He also gathered that ne would have' a good deal of support from the following of the other candidate.

In reply to a question, Mr. Wright said ho could not vofe for State control of the liquor traffic '