SIR GEORGE GREY AT AUCKLAND.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3967, 25 June 1887, Page 3

SIR GEORGE GREY AT AUCKLAND.

* (By Telegraph.) AUCKLAND, JUNE 24. Sir Georgo Grey addressed the Auckland City East electors to-night in the City Hall. Mr George Fraser, President of the Auckland Industrial Association, presided. There was a crowded attendance, the platform being filled by numbers of leading citizens, including several members of the Legislature and of the local bodies. On Sir George Grey making his appearance he was received with enthusiastic applause, tho audience rising en masse. The cheering was renewed when he commenced his address. A portion of his speech traversed ground already dealt with in his previous address. He denounced the Midland Railway land concessions. He advocated the reduction of Ministers to four, simplification of the departments, and reduction of the education vote without diminishing the effioienoy of the system. He urged reduction of expenditure of the colony, and reduction of taxation in consequence of such diminished expenditure, and the settlement of the waste lands of the colony on the line3 of his Land Bill, rather than by the present village settlement system under present regulations, which he warmly denounced. He was in favour of fair and proper protection being given to local industries, but if a system of unequaliaed protection was introduced, which built up large fortunes for manufacturers, he would insist on the operatives Bharing in the wealth which their labour created. The following resolution was carried by acclamation : — " That the Auckland Eaßt electors beg to thank Sir George Grey for his able address just delivered ; that they desire also to record their unabated confidenoe in him as their member, and sincerely trust that he may long continue to represent them in the House of Representatives.