MR. BRANDON AT WADESTOWN.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 136, 26 February 1918, Page 8

MR. BRANDON AT WADESTOWN.

Mr. A. de B. Brandon addressed a meeting at Wadestown last night. Mr. Edgar Wylie presided. Mr. Brandon said that an attempt was being mado to introduce into Now Zealand the American political machine, and that he was standing in order to prevent this if possible. Ha stated that there had been somo hints at consultation at meetings held behind locked doors of members of tho Reform League, but the majority of those mombe'rs present wero not elec-. tors of Wellington North. Ho said that ho would give full support to the National Government, but would reserve to himself the right to offer the freest criticism on measures submitted. It seemed to bo evident, lm said, that the treatment of returned soldiers and their dependants was not satisfactory, and he would be in favour of the whole niatter being referred" 1 to a commission or committee which should evolve a scheme by which justice could be done to the soldiers and their dependants, and to the State. Mr. Brandon urged tho electors to exercise their free right of choice in deciding which of tho four Candidatos they would support at the poll. Mr. E. F. Hadfield addressed the meeting briefly. He said that in this election there- were two candidates both supporting the National Government and the Reform Party, and tho people should honestly use their own judgment in deciding which candidate they would support. He suggested that tho electorate would be better represented by a man free and untrammelled like Mr. Brandon than by Mr. Luke, who was bound to support every Government proposal.