WELLINGTON SUBURBS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 119, 16 November 1911, Page 3

WELLINGTON SUBURBS.

MR. MOORE AT NGAIO. A MERCANTILE AND FINANCIAL AGENCY. #Ir. F. T. Moore, Labour candidate for the Suburbs seat, addressed a crowded meeting of electors at • Ngaio last night. Mr. Gibson occupied the chair. The candidate said that upon being returned to Parliament the first thing he would do would be to move the following : — "That whereas Home and colonial combinations of financiers, manufacturers, and trader© succeed in purchasing New Zealand's output of wool, meat, butter, and other products at prices which do not yield the producer a fair return, the necessary steps be taken to establish a State Mercantile and Financial Agency, which Department, shall control the sale of all products for export, with a view to fixing the minimum price of wool and butter at Is per lh, and meat at 3d per )b f.o.b. New Zealand, and that Australia and Argentina be, invited to adopt similar measures in order to- secure unanimity of action among the world's leading producing nations of Taw goods for export." Having had lifelong experience in the export of farm commodities, he was certain that hia scheme was quite practicable, and that the figures he quoted could be readily obtained if Parliament established the agency he suggested. In order to give this agency ample financial power, authority could be given for the issue of legal tenders, mercantile notes, in exchange for warrants on goods stored for export, which notes would be redeemable in gold when the goods were sold. His scheme would prove of greater material value to New Zealand than, any legislation yet placed on the Statute Book, and lie quite confidently appealed to the electors of tho Suburbs to place him in a position to carry out his great project. A vote of thanks and confidence was carried on the motion of Mr. Better, seconded by Mr. Gardiner. AIR. W. H. D. BELL AT BELMONT. Mr. W. H. D. 8011, Opposition candidate for the, Suburbs^ spojee at.Kilminster's Hall, Belmont. last evening. Mr. D. Johnson presidea. In "the course of hi 6 address the candidate referred to the remark made by Sir John Findlay at Auckland relative to the probability or possibility of removing trie seat of Government to Auckland. This was characterised by Mr. Bell a* a statement which was unsurpassed for its effrontery. If the platform of the Rei torui Party were put into operation, 1 backed. ]}£ fck£jagd whgj^ut it f orwjg^

it would mean the sweeping away of the abuses which bad sprung up under 20 gears' administration. It was high time someone went through the accumulation of papers in the Government pigeon holes. At the conclusion of his address the candidate was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence.