CLOSING SHOTS IN THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 262, 9 December 1914, Page 3

CLOSING SHOTS IN THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN

CHRISTCHU.RCH NORTH •

L. M. ISITT. •'I stand for the under man every time. I recognise that many of the labouring classes are not getting their due. I will fight for the masses and binder and stop monopolies."

H. F. TOOGOOD. "I stand for clean and sound administration, and I judge the. present Government on what it has done. My position in regard to Labour is intensely sympathetic. There is no man in New Zealand who would do more for the workers so long as they progress on sane and constitutional lines.','

HURUNUI

G. W. FOBBES. "I have no doubt at all that it would be in the interests of the conntry that a Liberal Government should return to power. The present Ministry is sparing no effort to misrepresent its predecessors "with the object of showing' that administration h»3 improved,' I

W. A. BANKS. "The present Government has not only carried on the taxation policy of the Liberals, but has actually extended" it. In fact, the man on the land is beginning to wonder when the increases* are to cease. As sure as the present opposition gets into power, so will your taxation go up by: leaps and bounds."

LYTTELTON

M. J. MILLER. "I stand in favour of the Massey Administration, an Administration which 3*as always been above class interests, lias been progressive, liberal, and impartial. . . . Though it had experienced Extraordinary circumstances, the Government had gone through on lines calculated for the best good for the greatest number.' *

JAMES McOOMBS. "Surely if proportional representation is the best for the Legislative Council, it is the best for the Lower House. I am pleased to see that the Liberal Party has adopted one of the most important planks of the Social-Democratic platform."

THE REFORM MINISTRY WHOSE FATE WILL BE DECIDED TO-MORROW

KAIAPOI

D. JONES. "The Kaiapoi Electors should support me because I stand for the Government which places sound administration and legislation in the interests of the people first."

D. BUDDO. "I express the warmest gratitude to my friends in my electorate for the zeal with which they are looking after my. interests. , While appreciating the kindness of those outside the electorate who are ready to give their services, I think my friends in the district can do all that is reauired."

SELWYN

J. HAMLET. "I stand for progress, promotion, and prosperity, which must command success in any walk of life. My Beform friends \ who are against me to-day "Will be forced to see three years from now that I am and will continue from now the most loyal man to the cause in the Southern Hemisphere. I will fee a Reformer till I die.".

G. SHEAT. "The most important things in a country are the land and the people. The farmer is rightly termed the backbone of the country, because lie is t&ie producer. The land is the greatest asset any nation possesses,"

RICCARTON

DFSDFSF

G. WITTY. "There are far too many buffers between the people and tie Ministers who ought to be responsible for the Civil Service. The Government has done nothing to put the recommendations of Royal Commission into effect.''

B. BTJNN. "I want you to remember that as a young man I am out to leave this country better than I found it, and I am out to assist in laying the foundations of this country upon national lines."