THE GENERAL ELECTION.

West Coast Times, 20 November 1914, Page 4

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

SIR JOSEPH-WARD--AT DUNEDIN. [PEB PBES3 ASSOCIATION. —COPTEIOHT.] DUXEDIX,’ Xov. in. Sir Joseph Ward addressed a crowded meeting in Hie Garrison Hall toit;ht and hundreds of people worn unable to gain admission. He expounded the Liberal policy at length on tho lines of his addresses at Winton and Wellington. In the course of his speech, he declared that a further reduction in the Customs tariff was absolutely essential in the interests of the people. He had been for the best part of twelve months examining a scheme by which the main articles of food could be cheapened, and the same system could he extended to meat and bread and coal. It could Is- done with tho assistance of the State. A great bulk of our products bad Hue markets abroad, and the State, without interfering with the men on the land, eould provide a system whereby the whole of the products going .abroad could go abroad and the portion remaining here for consumption could ho cheapened. If the Liberal Party succeeded in bringing about practical results of this kind, and opimneiits went about saying they had done it, then he eould forgive them, because it was the natural desire of many men to say, "see what we did” when they had no more to do with it limn the man in the moon. He was accorded a splendid lAeeptian. At the close of his address, he received a vote of thanks, this being accompanied by a vote of no-eoiilldence in the -Massey Government.