GENERAL ELECTIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 57, 21 October 1911, Page 5

GENERAL ELECTIONS.

-„ x AN OLD CAMPAIGNER. (Per Press Association ) Wellington, October 20. Mr Joseph Ivess announces that he will he a candidate for the Waimariuo seat at the general election. f WELLINGTON SUBURBS SEAT. Wellington, October 20. Mr W: H. D. Bell, son of Mr H. D. Bell, K.C., opened his campaign for the Wellington Parliamentary seat at Karori to-night. He supported the Opposition, and criticised the administration of the Government. Ho advocated a 55 per cent, majority for No-license, and some measures such as profit-sharing for making the interests of employer and employed identical. He held that the Arbitration Act was dead. A vote of thanks and confidence was passed, with one dissentient. TIMARU SEAT. Timaru, October 20. Mr Jesse Reader, Labour candidate for Timaru, gave his first address tonight to a large meeting. He made a good impression. MR. McCLUGGAGE AT STRATHMORE. (Special to “Stratford Post.”)

Mr J. McCluggage met the electors in the Strathmore Hall last evening, the Hall being well filled with a good number of ladies. Mr G. Calvert was voted to the chair, and in introducing the candidate said Mr McCluggage was well known to them all as a business man and settler. The candidate was well received, and had a good and sympathetic hearing. He fully explained the land policy of the Government, and defended the borrowing policy of the present Administration, saying that nine millions of the loan money had gone to farmers and settlers at 4-J- per cent interest on long dated mortgages. This borrowing, to assist land settlement, was unequalled in any other British dominion. He also proved the taxation by the Government was the lowest of any country, when you consider the assistance and benefits the workers and small farmers got for the small amount they are called upon to pay by direct or indirect taxation, and stated that food stuffs were taxed 4s in the £ under the old Conservative party was reduced by the Liberal Government to lOd in the £. At the conclusion of the address, Mr McCluggage was loudly applauded, and Mr ”Cigni moved and Mr Duggens seconded a vote of thanks and confidence in Mr McCluggage as a fit and proper person to represent us in Parliament and continued confidence in the present administration, which was earned unanimously. A hearty vote of thanks to the chair terminated the largest political meeting ever held here.