GREAT REFORM MEETING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14656, 25 January 1912, Page 5

GREAT REFORM MEETING.

EIGHTEEN MEiCBEES PRESENT. ME, MASSEY'S EEMAEKS. CHEEBS AND CONFIDENCE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 2i. ■*■ nuge demonstrauou was held by the Iteiorm I'arty in the Xowa Hail to-iugut. Xhe attcndaifce was over JtWU, the accommodation of tne hall be.ng iuiiy taxed. Air L. <,. Uagnall occux«ed the chair. _A loug prograuimd ol i>i>t:eoh<.-s \va.s delivered bv inemt«rs or tuo Kefurm I'arty, of whomeichteea were present, luo audience gave tie t-pc-alters ;u very hearty rc-voticn, Mr -Uaisoy being tuc subject of reiuarl:ab:e display of cuthusiasm. When ha to sr«.-ak ho wui received with a great demonstration, tho audicjica cheenng a rd singurg -For He's a Jolly Good i-ellow." Mr Massey expressed Lis rbn-il.- f or tho support given t« the KeformParty at tne general elections. The old w^Zfh^ 0^of the »«*y 5 7£L* ° W £eeure support in th 3 greatest centre of tho lie belonged was how removed lu*-t W would never regret thiTand whti Auckland said the resfS Ne~w would say to-morrow Wet .«»ted its dLt ; niamtw r - Administration, and de- ' S.d e51.?,~- GoV - eriiu:eat energetic ! "- He °C " tle opportunity to J-"<-J: ana Jet peouie meet turn. *„ ruptiMitv J?i staunchoess and incorhad 7 * ? f Vrty and h»T-fi ? old m Tue service, the first trJr e^-or^""\ moat V b - Fcr Coing to h c -v wexe Up <.fc.maecr Govern Ji/aii. ",T n * ww « Proud at u.-url i uk f ntldon - e . affection -.f iL e mitk oi the people or Xo-.v jTiiur responabilivfts would be h«vv i ■ud «ou ; d thou- duty as sincere!v on the Treasury as C n tlie bencnes, their first thought bVntJ the ! «c.iare cf tlso countrv in tith-r cr- i 'U!n,ta:.- f . .\\.„. Zealand i" eded many relorms, such as the party had auvo-aud in the pc !S t, They waited t..0 uno--cup:ed lands opened taat every energeiio settler who desired to do so cou.d go upon -t. lh e finances must be placed upon ~ wand and proper looting, so tLat everv one cou.u see whether monev was "spci.t properly or tho reverse: The parlv hoiicti to be able to pron;ote economical auu eiSceDt adminiiiration. The btate must be prepared to mt for brains and ability, but thev" wanted to keep at a d:sten.e evervthing liie grait or political patronage. Tbo lesialau;rs of the countrv should be tne direct representatives of die peo*ile themselves. Thc-y wanted also lo f*e the country do it? duiv as rot the least of the nations which make "np the great empire. Altogether sixteen addressed the meeting. At the conclusion a - .ote of | tnanks and confidence in the K<?forin Party was carried bv an overwhelming majority. "