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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 168, 4 November 1881, Page 3

H COLLIER & CO., PIANOFORTE IMPORTERS, TUNERS, AND REPAIRERS, Victoria Avenue, Wanganui, wish to notify that Mr. COKER will Visit Hawera District on or about 12th November. Orders, &c, may be left with Mr. Pinches. 9S2tc. GM'ONT ELECTION. MAJOR ATKINSON WILL ' ADDRESS THE ELECTORS , IN THE HAWERA TOWN HALL, - O-N - FRIDAY NEXT, 4th NOVEMBER, At 8 p.m. TIGMONT ELE CTI ON. MAJOR ATKINSON WILL ADDRESS THE ELECTORS j AT ' MANAIA On Saturday Evening, at 7.30. TO THE ELECTORS OF EGrMONT. Gentlemen, — I have the honor to again offer myself as a Candidate to represent you in the House of Representatives. Nothing but the heavy pressure of important public business, mainly relating to your district, has prevented me from visiting you before this. Of general politics, or or ihe manner in which I have executed the trust you have so long reposed in me, I will now say little, as I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you personally in a few days. I must, however, with regard to Native matters, say a word or two at once, the subject being of such paramount importance to our district. Two years ago I promised that I would support no Government that would not effectually settle the Native difficulty on our coast. Since taking office, I have told you that the Government were steadily working in that direction, and that ■while they would not be unduly hurried on the one hand, on the other they would not be debarred from enforcing the authority of the law by fear of any consequences. If you will recall to mind how matters stood two years ago, and compare them with the state of things at present, you will see at a glance that a great advance has been made ; and I now say emphatically that the time has come when an end must be made of this standing threat to the peace of the Colony and district, and that it must and, I believe, will be effectually disposed of during this summer. I cannot conclude without congratulating you upon having made probably more proportionate progress since I have had the honor of representing you in Parliament than almost any other district in the Colony, and this notwithstanding the difficulties against which we have had to contend. I am, gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, H. A. ATKINSON. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE E&MONT DISTRICT. G-entlemen, — I beg to offer myself a Candidate for your suffrages at the forthcoming general election. I base my claim to your support on my being a resident in the district, and having had considerable Parliamentary experience, during which time I gave the most unqualified satisfaction to my constituents. I heartily endorse the present action taken by the Grovernment re the Maori difficulty, but regret Mr. Bryce was not allowed by Ministers to pursue his own policy when last in office. If elected, I will support the further reduction oi the cost of Public Service, by bringing our public business under ordinary business rules, and so save the amazing amount of red tape that now runs through every department. To effect this, I will begin with Parliament itself, the cost of which can well be reduced by one-half. Local G-overnment should be simplified, rendered less expensive, and at the same time made more efficient. Our Land Laws should be so amended as to give the man whose principal or only capital is labor, increased facilities for making his home on the land, the present deferred-payment system not being sufficiently liberal to meet the case oi laboring men. Such native industries as can be established without increasing the cost of the article to the consumer should be fostered by the Legislature. Our public works must be extended, and should be provided for by further borrowing iv the English market, rather than by increased taxation. This district requires, and must have public money expended in the construction of the link of railway between Hawera and Manutahi ; also, on Opunake Harbor, and the further improvement of the Patea Harbor Some more roads must also be provicieci ior oub oi puWie funds. I shall take an early opportunity of holding meetings at the centres of population in the district, when I will fully explain my views on the above, and many other subjects connected with the good Government of the country. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, CHARLES WOOLCOCK. Normanby, October 28th.