A POLITICAL PLATFORM.
A well-known resident in the Wairarapa, Mr Coleman Phillips, in an address delivered at Masterton recently entitled "The purification of politics" summed up his platform as follows :— " The purification of Parliament; separating the Public Treasury from the Bank of New Zealand; absolute cessation of public borrowing; cessation of the internal improvement of policy by Government works ; reduction of taxation and public debt; Freetrade; opening up outward communication and trade ; repeal of late harmful laud and labour laws ; encourage, ment of individualism ; an immediate return to the private grassing and stocking of waste Crown lands in order to relieve the unemployed ; relegation of Government to its proper functions of governing; the simplification of local government."
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 277, 29 May 1896, Page 2
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117A POLITICAL PLATFORM. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 277, 29 May 1896, Page 2
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