HAWKES BAY SEAT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8738, 21 May 1914, Page 4

HAWKES BAY SEAT

The constituency of Hawke’s Bay is to lie congratulated upon the fact that it will bo represented in the next Parliament by Mr Robert McNab—-for we have no doubt that that gentleman’s candidature, which we announced yesterday morning, will bo successful. It has been known for some time past that the electors of Hawke’s Bay are keenly desirous of ending the fantastic farce that now exists of a community crushed down and kept back by the blight of land monopoly being “ represented ” in Parliament by, one of the chief monopolists. It has been known, also, that the Liberals in a number c.t electorates have been wanting to secure Mr McNab as their candidate at the coming general election, recognising in him one of the best-informed and most progressive of the men who have figured in our public life. Mr McNab has had to make a selection. He could not stand fer ail of the seats which he has been invited to contest, in any of which there were excellent prospects of winning. As a land reformer, a confirmed upholder of the policy of the graduated tax. a student of political questions who realises the acute necessity for closer settlement, we look upon it as peculiarly appropriate that Mr McNab chooses to ask for a seat in Parliament frpra people residing in the very heart and centre of the economic evils which be will devote his energies to fighting. The constituency as well as the whole country must certainly be congratu lated. We are sure that Hawke’s Bay is a convenient area in which to throw down the gage of battle to monopoly and we are equally convinced that the democratic cause could not wish for an abler and more courageous champion than Mr McNab. Proof of this will no doubt be supplied very shortly in the exasperated outpourings and misrepresentations of the Tories and their subsidised newspapers. The public will soon see that those agencies will do Mr McNab and democracy the compliment of cordial hatred. As for the sitting M.P. for Hawke’s Bay, Mr H. M. Campbell, he will very soon bo forgotten.