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ELECTION NOTICES. I . waipawa ; The REFORM Candidate GEO. HUNTER / \ ' / a J \ j| v j 11 ')$ ' / ' ' v * *■ v J < ■ ;• \> ! ' Mr. Hunter Lag a remarkable recp'rd of assiduous servic eon local bodies. As a member of the Wallingford Road Board, he was acting-chairman from August, 1884, til] May, 1885; then lie was elected chairman, and has hold that position ever since. , During twenty-sis years of membership of the Board, he has been absent only eight times. He was the first chairman of the. Porangahau Road Board, which was constituted in September, 1883, and has presided over it ever since, making a period of twenty-seven years, during which time he has been absent from meetings only nine times. He is also a member of the Patangata,County Council, and the Waipukurau Central Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and is now president of the New Zealand Agricultural Conference. • Various sporting associations are indebted to Mr. Hunter. He-is a life member of the Committee of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club, president of the Waipukurau Jockey Club, and patron of the Dannevirke Racing Club and the Dannevirke,Hunt Club; and he was for many years a member of the Racing Conference. When the racing rules provided for the hearing of appeals by judges, lie sat as judge to hear the first appeal. In 1914, Mr. Hunter took chargc of arid piloted through the"House a Private Member's Bill, by which the number of racing permits issued to country clubs, holding "oneday" meetings, was increased by thirty-one. • ' —— ( • • j - :Re-E!ect 'HUNTER on Wednesday

. ■ ' ■ PAHIATUA ■ The REFORM Candidate A 1 A. McNIGOL be faced by the Parliament to be | ' I stand as a practical New ZeaDecember 17th, O lander embued with the spirit My platform is a practical one:— (1) The expeditious land settlement of the country satisfying first those 'soldiers who have fought through the war'and been repeatedly disappointed at the ballot; ami having discharged our national obligation pushing on civilian settlement. With a practical policy bf closer settlement must be linked the premeivtion of unfair re-aggregation of area. (2) The proper roading of this .country providing by a revision of our system of local government that smaller counties shall not be unfairly burdened with the upkeep of a main road, which penalises settlers on back roads in the marketing of their produce. Practical grappling with the problem of national reading. '' (3) The development of our hydro-electric power so that prompt and practical benefit will be derived by the farming and industrial community, particularly in the Pahiatua constituency. (4) The practioal application of the Housing 'Act to the Pahiatua Constituency so that, town and country workers may add to the development of the district by an established citizenship. . (6) An Imperial immigration policy that will assist us with the necessary labour in progressive development of the 7* oountry, -thus assuring prosperity and practically benefiting the mass of the people. ,(6) Reduction in the cost of living by stimulating production, prosecution of the profiteer, regulation of trusts that manipulate the people's market; and revision of the Customs tariff so as to reduce the price of imported foodstuffs to the mass of the people. Yours faithfully, - , • A. McNICOL