WELLINGTON SUBURBS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 56, 29 November 1919, Page 10

WELLINGTON SUBURBS

ME. B. A. WEIGHT AT WADESTOWN

At the club room, Pitt Street, Wadestown, laat night, Mr. Bi Ai "Wright continued his addresses to tho electors. Mr. Young occupied the chair, and tho meeting ivas well attended. _ Mr. Wright referred to various political matters, aild received nil excellent hearing. Dealing with the of Stats control, he (=ni(l bp was only iii fayoftr of the Statß assuming control of an industry when it became a monopoly. Or, if _ tho State did not control, it should maintain iictivo opposition to the monopoly. This was a very different proposition to the wholesale State control which wets now being advocnted by political leaders. In answer to questions, Mr. Wright said he would not support the repeal of the legislation which closes hotels at 0 o'clock. He would support a forty-eight hours week for all wwkerß in hotels and kindred establishments if it could bo shown that such an alteration would nofi seriously embarrass the public or th 6 employers. Ho would support legislation to give all workers in hotels, boardinghouses, and restaurants one day's holiday pnf.iv if they work a seven days week. He was in favour of .th? hours and wages of domestic workers boing fixed by the Arbitration Court, t A vote of thanks waa carried by acclamation, Mr. Wrigilit suggesting that confidence bo reserved for thp ballot-box.

ME. SLOANE AT MAKARA. Mr. Dunbar Sloano, Liberal candidate, for Wellington Suburbs, addressed ft well-attended-meeting of electors at Makara on Thursday night. II r. S. Bowler was- in (he chair, "ianl quite 6iire,"said Mr. Sloane. "that something drastic will ho dono in our next Parliament in recurd to smashing up lana' aggregation and speculation, for every candidate for Parliamentary honours is having a good deal to sav.in this regard; but only by. iudicious taxation oil a revaluation of all our lnnd can this bp (lone. Tho present system of forcing our returned soldiers into the freehold at very much, inflated values, is wrong. It ooes not give them a sporting chance to, make good. A special Department should bo set un bv the Government to take our young men with limited capital and adviso and guide them on the advantages of a good leasehold tenure."' To sink big sums of money into tho freehold was to condemn tho farmer to many years of slavery. Tho speaker advocated many more experimental farms, and an extension of the Agricultural Department. and instanced a case whore 150 ncres- of unmatured' meadow carried fortv cows, yielding 11,400 gallons of milk at 6d. per gallon. Three'years later the samo land, after being scientifically treated with a top dressing of superphosphate, carried sixty cowa, yielding 36,000 gallons of milk at.7fl\ per gallon. an increase of ,£GBS in production of milk alone. It will bo seen from this that not only wns tho quantity of milk' increased, but also tho quality as shovrn bv the rise in price, The farmer was the first man ill the country and the Government must see to it that ho had everv assistance to enable him to brine his. land to tho highest etato of productivity.. The speaker advocated municipal trading concerns, and expressed the opinion that the question of winter milk for tho city would ever bo a burnimr question until' the .municipalities had their own farms. Theso should be worked' on a profit-sharing system, precisely as many of our wealthy men were doing'throughout tho country todav. It does not pay the average farmer to produco winter milk, and with properly-conducted municipal farms provision could be made for winter supply. On the same principle could tho municipalities supply tho community with fish, by supplying outfits to fishermen and woiking on a profit-sharing basis. "I want to make myself quilo clear." said Mr. Sloane. Beforo starting these schemes the municipalities, must secure expert dairy farmers to act as instructors and inspectors, ana' expert fishermen to instruct and guide iy this department also. By no stretch of tho imasinatioh could it be expectcd that citv business men could successfully manage such departments as these. Every business must be learnt. Education, railway, road, and bridge construction, were touched on by the speaker, and ocvolopment of the hydro-electric scheme was stressed. The speaker was accorded a voto of thanks and confidence.