POLITICAL.
ME MASSEY AT HASTINGS. (Per Press Association.) Hustings, July 3. Mr Massey addressed a crowded meeting and received a welcome tonight. He said his visit was in view of the approaching general election, and lie laid before tne audience the political position from the Opposition standpoint. He stated that Uio Government had been so long m power that a number of abuses im.i g? own up which rcciu rod to be re medied, and ho hoped the people would give their attention to public attains oaring the next Aw mouths . He said one of the curses o! New Zealand at the present nine, was government by patronage. Hi made heated replies to Sir ,1. Carroll’s lucent criticism of his (Mr Massey’s) speeches. He (Mr Massey) would stand by Ids figures, because they were taken from a Government source, wham probably Sir J. Carroll had never seen. He would say to Sir J. Carroll that if the natives weio to bo saved it would be by the gospol of work, not by the gospel of “I'm,ton ’ 'l'e man who has done the most haem t> N:*,v Zealand,” said th 3 sponsor, ‘‘v...s that same Sir J .Carroll, and l.nt for him all the native lands would I t occupied by a prosperous people, and the natives would become use)id citizens ” The remainder of his speech was on the same linos as that Mlneied in other places.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 113, 4 July 1911, Page 5
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