SUBURBS SEAT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 68, 13 December 1919, Page 8

SUBURBS SEAT

ML'. 1?. A. WRIGHT AT MAKADA. I Mr. If. A. Wright addressed the Welliiurron Suburbs electors last night ;it Makara. Mr. JSu'.vler wns appointed ohainuan. The attendance! was good. Tho sueaker discussed a millibar of subjects of intercut to fanners. Ho particularly stressed the fact Hint candidates who were absolutely hostile (o farmers when aildrcssiufr city audiences, dcnoiinciif , .' tliciii us unpatriotic profilcc-is, adopted finite a different nttitude when sneakiiiK (lii'fctly to tho primary producers Mr. Wright reminded his audience that Iho lyilitv of the- extreme Labour Parlv was to control the? means of production, distribution, and exchange in the! interest.! of the? worker*. C'ontnillintr the means of production men'it seizin? tlio bind. Many farmers who I owned a freehold hrui earned it by their own indiridii.il effort. It rmmwnfrd rears of h:\rd work. n>id would not be surrendered at, the , will of au irvrsrwipible bodv of agitators. He mw] ibo election i.f candidates who wouV uiipDort the formation of n s'rong ("k.verniiirnl: wliicli would l.'Piul to any "Ip'w. After answering questions. , Jlr. Wright was accorded ;i hearty role of thank'.

VAi. UI'NUAIv SLOANK'P TAMPAICIN". Wjieakinj at Njjalißuransa, .Mr. Dunb.-.r Sh.-unc, Liberal cuiiiiidat;, paid that the arterial roads ol Nov. - Zealand inmt b« taken in hand by the Shte, with auli.'oiily ;;ivc:i to the local bodies to see that ilie money wgs judie/oiKly spent, but the jnoiH'y ccukl '\isi!y bo i'dund by the (Jovrniment. Thcn-ainh of poi:!uU would have been saved if Xew /.eahind h.id poieswil [food and well-consti'iK'teii arterial roads diiriut; the war. ilr. Sloaiie gave many illustrations of how I lie main :>rterial lo.uls r-f Xri'tl'.ern I'Vance had stood up to th". work, and he ventured the opinion *na( had il no! Ikc.m for these the ultimate- result of the war nrgiit have been different. Me nlso spoke of (ho iunncdialo biicce>« of some cf tho roads in America, and said

that in one case the capital cost of .■ rc.ul had been repaid in on? year frifln th« saving of petrol alone. In advocating a Slate bank, tho speaker said thai th<! bcnclils that would accrue to the ".■iiiiill inaiv" would be many and great. Although the proposal of a' State 'bank was meeting W;th opposition !'rom. certain, quarters, supporters of the scheme must not be disheartened, for suieh a bank would eventuate just as Mirely i>6 tlic olil-ajjo pension and the advances to settler;, had. Tin's workkhaking, war hail shaken down a lot of crusty old theories in finance, conimer-e, and in-di-stry, and he looked fonvird to the day when every enterprising business .man would know what it was to qnjoy an overdraft. Mr. Slonne spoke on education, ami again put in a strong plea it;r the teachtv, who, he paid, mn=t Vc granted recognition due to men and women doing , Ihs nation's highest work, "Ilip moulders of our future ■ltlzeiw." The candidate elaborated "the personal file system" for pupils, with the assistance cf which the parents and 'enchers would be enabled to divert 'he activities of- the child into the proper •jha'.ir-el al the- lerminafon of its school career. The bays and girls must bo given every opportunity to learn trades and p'rofwsioiv-. ami vcmox-p the ilnngev of -nvriUrr the ''casual labour list."