GENERAL ELECTION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19812, 2 December 1919, Page 3

GENERAL ELECTION.

THE ROLLS. The main roll of the Ellesmere electoral district consists of Sllß names, with Shout 1000 p.roßm-ns. The supplenHMitarv roll contains 1300 names". The. details of the Kaiapoi roll are: —Main roll, 7307; supplementary, 120b; removals, o&i. In 1914 tha figures were:—.Main roll, 6245; supplementary, 704.

NOTES ABOUT VOTING.

Alien members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force will not be allowed to vole at lite coming election. Members of tlie New Zealand Expeditionary .Force who have served overseas, whether registered or unregistered on the electoral roll.-, will be allowed to vote after tilling in a special application for a voting paper. JT, however, they vote in the electorate, in which they nre enrolled this will not be necessary. Soldiers who fill in the special application forms will be required to produce documentary evidence that they have served overseas in the Expeditionary Force. Absent voters' permits will not be necessary to those who have obtained this special permission. .Members of the Expeditionary Force who did not leave New Zealand are not entitled to this special leave to vote. but may, where necessary, obtain absent voters' permits from the Registrar of the district in which they are enrolled. \ oting by declaration applies to three classes of persons who, not being registered as electors, may make declaration in prescribed form that they are qualitiod to be enrolled as elector's in the district, in which they are resident, namely (a) Any person whose name is ruled out on any certificated copy of the roll supplied to the returning officer pursuant to Section 2i of the Legislature Amendment Act, 1010; (b) any person who voted as a registered "lector in the last preceding election for the district in which his place of residence is situated, and whose name does not appear on the roll for that district; (<:) any person who, having applied for enrolment as an elector, and having been informed the registrar that be has been enrolled, has not been so enrolled.

MEETINGS OF CANDIDATES

The Hon. G. W. Russell addressed .1 meeting of Avon electors at Bunvood last evening. Mr S. C Thompson presided. Mr Russell -was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence. Mr W. T. 1 a candidate for the Lyttolton seat, addressed a meeting ac Opawa School la.st. evening, and was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. Mr •!.'Robertson addressed an openair meeting at Hillmorton last night, and was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. 'Flip Hon. R> H. Rhodes addressed a meeting of Ellosmcre electors in the Springston Hall on Saturday evening. Mr D. IT. LeComto moved a. hearty vote of thanks, and also wished the speaker a successful campaign. The motion was seconded by Mr Hamilton and carried unanimously. Mr 1. Andrew, chairman of the Springs County Council, presided . .'l)t Thacker addressed a meeting of the employees of the. Kaiapoi. Woollen Manufacturing; Company's factory yesterday at lunch hour. The candidate, who wa. s given an excellent hearing, deal with indentured labour, housing, and cost of living. He was warmly applauded. Mr W. R. Devereux, Reform candidate for Riccarton, addressed a meeting of electors in the Orange Hall, Hornby, on Saturday evening. Mr W. H. Manhire occupied the chair. The can didato was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. Mr David Jones, Reform candidate for Kaiapoi. addressed meetings at West Eyreton, Kiri Kiri, West Oxford. Woodside, and View Hill in the past -week. Mr H. Holland, a candidate, for Christchurch South., addressed a meek ing of electors in the Coronation Hall, Sprevdon, last evening. Mr l>. Sykes presided. The speaker was accorded a vote of thanks on the motion of Mr S- Hancock.

MR MASSEY AT WAIMATE.

[Per Press Association.] WATM ATE, December 1. Mr Massey spoke horo to-night to a crowded meeting. The hall was packed lor some time before the meeting was timed to commence. He spoke tor over two hours, and was accorded an excellent heajiug. The Mayor (Mr \Y. E. Evans) presided. The Prime Minister -was greeted with applause on. rising to speak. He said he was- not going to deal with part* politics. The times were too critical to indulge in party wrangling. Ho referred to t!ie work of the National Government and sketched its beginning, and went on to speak of the necessity for increased industries. Greater roa<l and railway development was neces-,-jiry. He touched on hydro-electricity ami said no country was so "well favoured as New Zealand for water jxnver The coal shortage and the go-slow policy made the necessity for hydroelectricity greater. (Hoots, cheers, and applause.) The railway cut became necessary owing to the large number of men who left on a-ettve. service, and also was due to the coal shortage. (A voice: "Yes, when the men came back they did not get their positions again.") The speaker replied thai, rvery man got his job back with the exception of the unfit. How could they put. a man with heart disease on the footplate of an engine? (Applause.) As the result of repeated interjections, the chairman asked for fair play 10 the speaker. (Applause.) No further interjections followed. Speaking of nationalisation. Mr Masse y said that the Government was only interested in nationalising industries to break up monopolies and to assist public enterprise, but . not to kill private enterprise. More wheat must be produced in New Zealand. The drought -bowed that it was inadvisable to rely on Australia. Kncourageiuent. must be given farmers to grow move. As, regards sugar, meat, and (lour, he went on to say that last session the Government passed the'most drastic liill m unc iiritish Empire regarding profiteering, which provided either a heavy fine or gaol Regarding repatriation, the Government made every effort to pine* men. He was glad to say that 62 )>er cent, of the returned men did not desire as*'stance. Particular attention, was being paid to place partially incapacitated men. the agreement with the Imperial Government in regard to the meat output had been extended'to the end nf .June next,. The Imperial Government would decide between now and then whether the agreement would lie renewed. He replied at length to criticism referring to indentured labour in. Samoa, and showed the necessity for it. There was no suggestion of slavery, and there would not lie under the British flag. Concluding the speaker referred to Nauru as one of the most valuable island-?, rn the Bn'tish Empire. If. was estimated there were sufficient phosphates on Nauru to serve New Zealand and Australia for i\\ least !200 yearn, and if necessary tho Government would supply ships to get the material into the countrv. Mr Ma--ev sat down amidst'prolonged and enthusiastic applause. Mr 1,. Marie moved a heartv vote of thanks, and said there was no dbubi Mr Massey would do bis bes-l for the country. The motion, vsui iiwuidc-d Ivy Mx J.

M'Farlane and carried hv acclamation, amid cheers and applause. MrMuHey, in thanking the audience, said he would be pleased to welcome bis friend Mr Bitehener in the nexl Parlinment. (Applause, with a few dissentients.)

TIMARU SEAT.

[From Ouk Correspondent.] TDIARU, December 1. Addressing about a hundred supportera to-night Mr Craigi 0j who has not yet opened Ins campaign for Timaru, announced his platform briefly. He said that the great changes since the last e cction and the new conditions brought about by ihc war more than over conirrned him in the opinion that political lights were unnecessary. At the last election he had stood as an Indepeurf. nnt, and had urged the abolition of the iwrtysyste.ni. He had not followed slav.shly any individual or party, hut voted and spoke for what he believed o be-the best interests of the country t was very uncertain what, Tno position would he when the House met. Ihero would be a fair number ouHde the Reform and Liberal parties' a< there would he the Independents and the extremists to reckon wan. tie would not give support to anv partv flint would rely on the extremists for its existence. If neither Mr itssw nor Sir Joseph Ward was wrong enough to earn- on, there would be great nossibihties. What he would 'ike to «ee would h e a new Government, representmg all the elements in the House except the extremists. He asked the electors to return him with a. free hand untrammelled and unfettered, so as to enable lum to devote his energies to fiirther the common interests of the Dominion. Tho meeting unanimously parsed resolutions v.-amily approving Craigie s alt itude and pledging itself to work for his return.

TARANAKI SEAT,

[Per Press Association,] NEW PLYMOUTH, December 1. ' Mr George H. Buckevidge, of Hawera. who was recently selected to contest the Tarnnaki scat in the Reform interests against Mr S. U. Smith, the sitting member, spoke at Xew Plymouth this evening, and was accorded si. mixed reception. A vote of thanks and confidence was declared carried.

A DISORDERLY MEETING.

[Pan Press Association.] DUNEDIN, December 1. The Town Hall, South Duneclln, wa< crowded to overflowing to-night when Mr W. P. Black, Independent Labour candidate, was announced to speak. A vote of no-confidence in tlie chairman. Councillor M. Bradley, was carried, the grounds being that he had " scabbed " on Labour. The mover of the motion then attempted to take the chair, but Mi Bradley held liia ground and pushed his opponent from the platform. The scene of disorder amidst which this little comedy was enacted continued without intermission for about an hour. The chairman endeavoured to mate him?elf heard a.bove the hooting and bawling, and eventually stated that he had no alternative but to declare the meeting closed, and in doing so expressed a hope that they would be British enough to sing the National Anthem. Whether in the uproar the chairman's request -was hoard or not may be doubtful. Tt is certain, however, that it was the signal for renewed hooting and general disorder, amidst -which "the meeting broke up.