A LIVELY ELECTION MEETING.
Auckland, November 18.
W. G. Garrard, the labor agitator, addressed the electors of City North to-night. Major Burn?, of the New Zealand Regiment of Artillery, assumed the chair, but daring tincourse of the meeting, amidst great uproar, was superseded, and George H. Staines, the people’s champion, was installed. Mr Garrard said he was opposed to distraint for rent, or the enforcing of mortgages where a poor man could not pay arrears of rent or mortgage, interest or principle. He would make tbe debt a State debt. He was opposed to Chinese or assisted immigration. On the Native question he believed both races were wrong, but be would fight for the white man. He would support Sir George Grey. A vote of thanks was rejected, and one of confidence carried almost immediately amidst yells of laughter.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6439, 2 December 1881, Page 3
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139A LIVELY ELECTION MEETING. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6439, 2 December 1881, Page 3
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