POLITICAL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10408, 23 July 1912, Page 8

POLITICAL.

THE PREMIER AT PAHIATUA

Fcr Press Association. Woodvilia, July 22. Mr J. H. Esoott. M K for P«Jx«Sna. was entertained as a this evsnlna. There was a la g attendance of supporters /rowi al 1 narta o£ the district. --ho following Lem bare of Parliament were present* Dr. Kowtnsa and Mcfet>-S Sykes.' Hoick, Oothrle. Mine and hp Hon Massey. , The Prime Minister, in bis ea3d ho would not divulge meat's policy yet. It wonH r( ! ]8 ” a £ y :n about throe weeks, tended making a specially of land settlement, as they oomd oerve 1 country best by increasing the nnm-1 Sm of'producers. The* hoped -to giro every man who desired it the opportunity of going on the land, and to lacrosse the production as it was possible ..to do is; to give security of tenure; to improve the val- • cstiun '■ system by exempting us* pzovaaieufcp. ; to iotrodnoe a system ot reading; to improve agricultural education, in which New Zealand was behind. The Domniou being so far off the markets, it was necessary for farmers to get the bast possible education. If they were able So do these things,' Government would feel they had dona well for the people. Mr Massey denied that Sir John Hall. Sir Harry Atkinson, or the Hon. O. Bowen ware Tories, and gave an illustration of their being great Liberals, They could not make the people nob or prosperous withoat TOorSk., bat tboy iiopod to giVB equal opportunity *o all and make the chances for life better. At the termination of his speech, the Prime Minister, on behalf of the electors of the district, presented Mr Esoott with a gold watch and chain. There was great applause, and "For he’s a jolly good fellow” was sang.