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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 13, 10 July 1884, Page 3

i Election Notices '- IfANAWATU ELECTION. ±V1 — To F. Y. Lethbridge, Esq., G. M. Snelson, Esq., and the electors signing the above requisition. Gentlemen, In response to your i, very flattering and gratifying request ! I have great pleasure in consenting to be nominated as a candidate for I Manawatu at the coming election. ■ I shall take an early oppoi'tunity of . ; addressing the electors at the various j-cc7itrofl, and explaining my political I 1 views in detail. f ! In the meantime I may state that I a | am more in accord with the policy of j the Atkinson Ministry than with that i Tof 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 tiie colony at large, and that especially they have tried to promote the prosperity of the country districts hy liberalising the land laws, and b3 r thoir 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 bo 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 nuances of the colony warrant it, of free primary education, and iu any case of free education up to the fourth standard. I slioukl like to see our railways managed by a non-political Board, the members of which should only be removable in Uiq 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 en'if>avour 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. H. MACARTHUR. TO DONALD FEASER, ESQ. SIR, — We the undersigned, Electors of tho Mnnawatu District, request that you will allow yourself _ to' be nominated as a Candidate to represent the District in* the House of Representatives at the forthcoming election. We are, Dear Sir, Yours Respectfully — J. E. Forster-Pratt Bernard Newcombe Alexander Ferguson J. O. Batchelar Kenneth McKenzie James King (And 203 other names) ToJ. K. 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 tlie honor of representing the Manawatu District in Parliament. It i» mj intention to meet the- electors of this district as often as 1 it is possible before the election day and at j not only at the principal townships, but also the various ridings of the County, in order to express my views upon tho dif- I ferenfc important points. I may say that ; if I have the honor to bo elected jour representative, I will faithfully work for the ' good of your district and the wholo colony, and be at all times ready to render to you an account of my stewardship. J I am, Gentlemen, Yours Obediently, ; DONALD FEASEE,