ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 7

ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

(I'er Press Association.! DUNEDIN, la«t night. In the itarrisKJii Hall this evening the Hight Hon. W. l<\ Massey addressed a v crowded house on a. large number of political questions, tii>, - speech being mainly mv tho - Hiiu.s .o! those in the Fouth. earlier in th e Week. ICo outlined, the piegvnnnM; of the ' coming session ;us in his lnvevcaigi'l speech, promising, ;miong other things, aiufmlmeiits 111 ttae industrial law and al§6 in th_> lici-m.ing law, electoral law, ; and also in legislation afltecfcjng education. The I'rime Minister a.'-s'u / , pVomisv»d further legislation to eucottrago the fruit industry. He said ',;\u Ada tic Immigration Bill would ..-also be brought down, which would stop the immigration of Asiatics to tins countrv .

A motion of tha»k.v tttul confidence; 1 tuid pledging -tlve mvoting V) support the Massey Uovernnient was proposed and si'ooncied. An nniendmeiit. of th.nksj to Mr M:».3sey for his address, but ex- j pressing 1 disapproval of the, t.idticsj adopted V»y tlio (i.'W'ii \»iit tu capture ♦■hf Treasury rsv.el , ,'.s s ten wcii cal-•rui-ati'd t<j '} :v.-ri\:)\ •'. ixir';- j'Mitics, •>v:ts '"Mv^ojfd, bat tb:v me' : ..< \v ",s carried by ;i very .large major. t\v • ' CHKLsTCKUiU. H, lust niiflit. The Hon. A. L. Hevdman delivered a at Ha\v>rd;n t -.>-;!*>>• on the >ift v 's''ot' that delivered I v'hm ai Methv^n. H? made extendtt) rJi-iLnw to i.h<- J*uWi- Trust Office, aiifl rop'k'd to etitain criticisms made 1 y Mr U. W. Russell, concerning the administration i-f'ths office.

ROKITIK \, la* i:i-ht. Mr, L. .M. lait-t, M.P., adoveod * public meeting Jiei-e to-higbl The tveiih^r was unfavorable, nr:d tV? Pi'inTheatre held a srrr.i!! r Herd nice. Mr Isitt, vrho was' subjected .'to irsquent interruptions, spoke on,, the/ same l'««2 as his previous addi>essias in uthov parts of .tho Dominion. .. At the conebskn of the address a vote of thanks fo the ■"yWpeaker, and continued confidence in A§i r Joseph Ward as letulpv of the LibJvra\ party was carried. An amendment ' was not seconded. Cheers were mveiv for Mt Isitt, Sir Joseph Ward, and the, Hon. Mv Massey^ . s \