ELECTION CAMPAIGN.
(Per Press Association.)
IpNEDIN, this day. Mi';R. H.. Ppifglas. Independent eral. candidate for Dunedin North, opened his campaign last night. He attributed the increased cost of living to ;inoeased wages and inflated land values, and said due method of meeting the difh-, culty was State competition. On jthe land question he favored leasehtild. tenure^. andi said Grown lands should hot be disposed of. He urged the immediate opening up of unused native lands.. He approved of a National Provident Fund. He considered a three-fifths majority on. the liquor question was not a fair proportion. ■ > -.The» candidate received a. unanimous vote of thanks and confidence . T.XVERCAHGILL, this day.' | Mr James King, Opposition candidate for Wallace, opened his -campaign*, last night. "H& declared himself m favori ef an elective Upper House and Land Boards. He supported the bare*majoifity and State control of the liquor trade. He declared that the totalisator was: no worse than the average church bazaar, and he advocated the .-freehold. A vote of thanks was laccoi'ded the candidate.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12587, 18 October 1911, Page 5
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