TOI TOI VALLEY.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13711, 30 April 1913, Page 6

TOI TOI VALLEY.

Tho candidate next spoke atthe Toi Toi Valley Sunday edhool, where Mr. W S Mears was elected to tho chair, id presided over a terge number of ClM^ rLock's speech was in the main * Pres? M rS cc,, -on Why, w ßom o g£'€ BBS? 1«*«5 4h fecaPress. Ho could not .underI™ this out why should he be subgfeaes£s§ anva 3*i ratcoavors were not in favour or ferS'tho Council dkl .not Provide Sfom in some surreptitious *» «£oV tho overdraft Ho asserted £ftt tho streets under Mr. Jickell *hil© people who were not so. rich had I £"£ SSEout in other looahfcies which ?J; much older. The candidate road «L anonymous letter asking him to do XShii for Toi Toi Valley in the way S street work, and removing a burial Sound for horses. The candidate SSLi that he would »tteodtott»J Suttert. Concluding he stated that It 2ad been eaid that ho was not dignified onoueh for Mayor, and did not put on foiigh "side." At present it was a ttlSbotwoen tho Press and the people, c upper crust and the democracy. SCO knew that the most important busiZ2» of the Council was talked over and arranged in a "swell1' club. This X not as it should be. If the people ooSTld only see come. of the miserable ~o4jtors there wore—ho must not saj Sin Nelson— Oh! No. Let them fiw in Australia, or some other part of the world. They were . the most miserable, narrow-minded rjuitora ho had ever seen. Mr Kck here proceeded with an account of various charitable, acts 5K he had done "in tihe service of "•in^Vr-a question by ti» d-£ nan. the epeakor said ho was not in favour of tho Beautifying Society KSag up the pathways and blocking the traffic with their work, but he approved of the movement. ™ query was put to. the ? candidate. "IIW about the abattoirs? • Tho spoakor: "They should be made to pay.'l He had not, he said, strange to ml riven any consideration to the Sattoirs. They had quite slipped his ■Rotponding-to an inquiry as to what ho conflidered a fair wage Mr. Lock ■Sd he did not kww ««f o^S 1! n l hut he thought about 9« or 10s a 3w He would advocate employing the boat mon at the best wages. Another question . elicited the regpo%"that Mr. Lock was favourable JToW Peoplo being employee! on contract and men on the streets, etc., on said he had not studied tho question of rating on unimproved Sw, and was hot able to S 1™ a definite.opinion; but he did not think it wan suitable for Nelson. Mr. J. Holland proposed, and Mi T. Akehurst seconded, a £ oti™ ot ■Hi'mks to and confidence in Mr. iiOcK. b Mr iTck said that the election was a cnaUit between the Press and the peoSo the upper classes and the demoSaiy. It Ks simply disgusting that Wo men "aquattod in a^chair ' and <St with public men, as "he had been Salt with He hoped, tho electors vriKikl show their utter disgust for the tactics the Press had adopted, and at the absolute and disgusting falsehoods that had been deliberately published m tho «Mimns of these papers. Mr. Lock s air! lie made those remarks calmly, and °A. "motion" of thanks to the dhairman ioonoluded the meeting.