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Election Address p J. Low M. Docherty A. Lning J. Lain^ D. Laing J. A. Beattie R. Menzie, junr., J. Johnston i A. Hubner H. Munro A. Brown A. Tuckey J. Turner R. Warner A. Wischnoskf C. Wischnosky O. Taukauger W. Kruyer Belire dt T It. Browyne G. lilnkeny D. Sanson J. McCool ' A. McCool - W. Wilson W. Hill G. Allen S. Jennings W. S. Williams J. M . Duly A. Prinjjle B. Prinsjle W. G. Peurce G. Ashwnrth I W. Mark H. Ashworth J. Green J. Close C. Patterson J. Kins G. H. Page M. E. Wright W. Hnrrey T. Gardner A. Gardner J. Gardner J. W. Whibley J P. Whibley - A. A. Whibley J. P. Whibley H. Wliibley A. Wood J. Beard A. Paton M.Tremewan C. Warne P. Sykes J. Jarvis S. Pankhurst H. Christenscn T. Whitehead J. Paton B. Treinewan K Potts Iv. Bii£K P. Kerrigan W. France* G. Marsh A. Ehlern R. Lacy . Lowes J. Turner C. VleKenzie W. Blaskett 1 A. Wiff G. Wilson P. Hanlon F. Kn.>x J. Smith . J. W. Hiscon R. Linton F. Palmer J. Purkiss T. A. Thompson M. Bielski W. Bell W. G. Dickson W. Williams J. Keen T. Oliver E. Marsh E. Everiss J. Heappey J. A. Riley C. G. Haycock D. Ram.say W. T. Larsen H. Holmrs R. Anderson E. G. McDermott R. Anderson A. F. Dowden W. F. Marsh J. Graves J. Kustace W Ferguson R. Neill T. Gilbert T. Marsh A. Ryan A. Bell E. Child Palmerston, June 10th, 1884. To D. H. MACARTHUR, Esq. Sib, — In view of the impending dissolution of Parliament we the undersigned request you will allow yourself to be nominated as a candidate for the Manawatu seat at the coming general election. G. M. Snelson J. Waldegrave A. McDonald H. McNeil 11. Hankins S. M. George J. Walker A. Palloon J. Sharman A. McMinn G. McCarty T. Walton J. Mowlem W. St. John T. Griggs D. Pringle C. Gatton E. Collins (1) F. Stratford J. Jones R. Allingham A. S. Baker R. Johnston W. Anderson E. Turner J. McDowell C. S. Colville T. Wray ; E. Powell F. G. Daniels R. Leary H. Donkin J. Hamilton C. London E. Collins (2) J. W. Lovelock T. Knight S. J. Podevin &c, &c, &c. To F. Y. Lethbridge, Esq., G. M. Snelson, Esq., and the electors signing the above requisition. Gentlemen, In response to your very flattering and gratifying request I have great pleasure in consenting to be nominated as a candidate for Manawatu at the coming election. I shall take an early opportunity of addressing the electors at the various centres, and explaining my political views in detail. In the meantime I may state that I am more in accord with the policy of the Atkinson Ministry than with that of any of the numerous leaders on the other side of the present House. Though that Ministry has no doubt made mistakes I believe the leading members of it have on the whole worked honestly, according to their lights, for the good of the colony at large, and that especially they have tried to promote the prosperity of the country districts by liberalising the land laws, and by their scheme for the construction of roads and bridges, the partial failure of which through want of funds is attributable to causes beyond the control of any Government. 1 cannot, however, agree with Mr Rolleston's projected scheme of perpetual leasing, or with what it is now the fashion to call the nationalization of the land. Let the Crown lands be leased on the easiest terms compatible with due provision for survey and road making, but as under the present Act let a purchasing clause always be granted after a fair proportion of improvement has been made. The truest nationalization of the land, I hold, is to settle it with freeholders in moderate sized blocks, trusting for revenue to the development of the resources of the country caused by such settlement rather, than to rents extracted by a Central Government from a State tenantry. I agree generally with the native policy of the Atkinson Ministry, and especially so with Mr Bryce's proposal for the resumption of the preemptive right. I am in favour of secular education, and as long as the finances of the colony warrant it, of free primary education, and in any case of free education up to the fourth standard. I should like to see our railways managed by a non-political Board, the members of which .should' .only be removable in the* same manner as Judges of the Supreme Court. • Other and minors questions I ;will i deal with when addresdrig th^6lec-^ tors f&ce to fece. ; : "■*[] ■',', ,'■ ; ..-i If Ihave the hhonorr r v to be erected, I can conscientiously say' that I will endeavour to the best of my ability to represent the district as a whole, with.outbias in favpur.of any particular part of it, while remembering at the same time that a 1 member ' isyeleqited "to; [ watch over the interests iof the' colony; lat large. ' ! "''"[[ " : ! "' I Your Obedient Servant, ;: : D. H. MACARTHUR. !