WELLINGTON SOUTH

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 7 November 1919, Page 5

WELLINGTON SOUTH

WELLINGTON, Nov. 6. Colonel Mitchell, Independent candidate for Wellington South, addressed a large meeting of electors to-night. He expressed sorrow that soldiers had come back to find a different spirit prevailing in the country 'from that which prevailed on the battlefield —the spirit of brotherhood and comradeship. The, spirit here was one of selfistSiess, land speculation, and profiteering. He was just as much against the land speculator and the profiteer as against*! the extreme element who opposed sol-' diers in the war. It was not his inten-l tion to pledge himself to anyone except 1 the people. If the cost of living problem was not tfaced there would be a calamity. Tlie education system should be kept free, secular, and compulsory, j and should be put on a higher and better status.