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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 11, 5 July 1884, Page 3

Election Notices MANAWATU ELECTION. 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 Eolleston'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 Tair 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 minor questions I will deal with when addressing the electors face to face. If I have the honor to be elected, I can conscientiously say that I will endeavour to the best of my ability to represent the district as a whole, without bias in favour of any particular part of it, while remembering at the same time that a member is elected to watch over the interests of the colony at large. Your Obedient Servant, D. PI. MACARTHUB. TO DONALD FEASEE, ESQ. SIR, — "We the undersigned, Electors of the Manawatu District, request thai you will allow yourself to bo nominated as a Candidate to represent the District in the House of Eepresentatives at the forthcoming election. We are, Dear Sir, Yours Eespectf ully — J. E. Porster-Pratfc Bernard Newcombe Alexander Ferguson J. O. Batchelar Kenneth McKenzie James King (And 203 other names) ToJ. E. Forster-Pratt, Alexander Ferguson, J. O. Batchelar, Kenneth McKenzie, James King, Bernard Newcombe, Esqrs., and the 203 other gentlemen. Gentlemen, — In response to your very influential and flattering requisition. I have great pleasure in allowing myself to be nominated as a candidate for the honor of representing the Manawatu District in Parliament. It is my intention to meet the electors of this district as often as it is possible before the election day and at not only at the principal townships, but also the various ridings of the County, in order to express my views upon the different important points. I may say that if I have the honor to be elected your re--1 presentative, I will faithfully work for the good of your district and the whole colony, and be at all times ready to render to you an accoutit of my stewardship. I am, Gentlemen, Yours Obediently, DONALD FEASEE.