MOTUEKA ELECTORATE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 13 November 1928, Page 2

MOTUEKA ELECTORATE

MR R. V. HUDSON Mr I!. P. Hudson will address the electors at the Motueka Institute Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. MR (i. C BLACK Mr W. Kidd presided over a largo and enthusiastic meeting on Thursday evening at Govvan Bridge, when Mr G. 0. Black addressed the electors. The candidate dealt with the completion of the railway between Kawatiri and Inangahua, and referred to the fact that conceded effort was being made on the construction of the Rotorua-Taupoi Railway despite the fact that two Royal Commissions had reported unfavourably on such a railroad. The 3922 Commission had found that the extent" of traffic, between Uotorua and Taupo would earn in itvenue £6l/192 per annum, provided (he railway was completed and open to traffic within a ten year period; that, there was under present or probable conditions no likelihood of such railway (if constructed) returning sufficient revenue from the working of such railway to meet the expenditure incurred in and by such working together with interest on cost of construction of such railway, and that the extent of the country to be served was 1,250,000 acres, of which area the quantity proved to be suitable for closer settlement was very limited. The policy of the United Party was to complete all main arterial lines of railway by the raising of £10.000,000, and the "gap" was included in the "necessary lines" referred to by Sir Joseph Ward. Farmers' finance and unemployment were fully dealt with by Mr Black in the course of his address.

.After a number of questions had been satisfactorily answered, Mr John Rait moved a hearty vote of thanks to and confidence in the candidate, and the same was carried by acclamation. A hearty vote of thanks to the chairman ,vas also carried.

Mr Black addressed a meeting of electors, presided over by Mr John Rait, on Friday evening. The speaker dealt at length with farmers' finance, and the monetary assistance that had been given Iho man on the land during the past three years by the Government through the State Advances Office, under the Rural Advances Act and the Intermediate Credit System. The proposals for farmers' finance advocated by the United Parly's policy were also exhaustively explained. On the motion of Mr L. Win, seconded by Mr R. Win, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded the candidate at the conclusion of his address, and a vote of thanks to Mr Rait concluded the meeting. Mr Black also addressed a crowded meeting at Gripps' Camp on Friday afternoon and a meeting at Glenhope early in the evening.

Mr Black will speak this evening at Upper Moutere school at 6 o'clock; Riwaka Hall at 7.30, and at Motueka (Horticultural Hal!) at 8.45. The secretary of Mr G. C. Black's committee is Mr Basil P. Colvin. In. a letter published on Monday the omission of a letter did not make the name plain.