GENERAL ELECTIONS.
MR. JAS. ALLEN AT SHANNON
(Per Press .Association.)
Wellington,' October 9
At Shannon on Saturday Mr James Allen addressed a meeting in advocacy of the Opposition platform. The general'tenor of his address was that, the most' notable' legislation during the Ward Administration’s term of office ‘ had been passed with the aid of the' Opposition Party, and- was therefore to the credit" of Parliament, and not solely to the Ward Government. He refuted the statement made in "the House recently that Mr Massey, if Premier, would sell all the Crown lands .- at their original value,’‘his policy' in this dir'.cuon referring only to lea'se-in-perpetuity lands. Mr Allen was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.
LABOUR CANDIDATE FOR RICCARTON.
Christchurch, October 9
Mr D. G. Sicilian, president of the Canterbury .Trades and Labour Council, will probably be the Labour candidate for Riccarton.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 46, 9 October 1911, Page 6
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