MR DAVID JONES FOR MID CANTERBURY

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6735, 11 October 1928, Page 7

MR DAVID JONES FOR MID CANTERBURY

SPEECH AT ASHBURTON. ■ Per Press Association. ( | ASHBURTON, Last Night. Mr. David Jones, Reform candidate for mid-Canterbury, addressed a meeting to-night. He claimed that the Reform Government represented labour bettor than any Labour Government in the Empire. Regarding finance, our interest on tho war , debt and war sinking fund aniounted practically to the amount spent on ’Public Works last* year, so that, but for the war burdens, borrowing v could cease. He defended the Government's land policy but said further development was essential. A vote of thanks was carried by accla* nation. . - ;