MR CARTER AT GREYTOWN.
There were about 100 electors at Mr Cattwmeeting atGreytown on Monday. Mr H. Udy, sen. was moved to the chair, on the motion of Mr 11. H. Jackson, and having stated briefly the 'cause of the meeting, hestated that he was pleased to preside at a meeting convened for Mr Carter, and he was pleased with that gentlemans address to the electors, and hoped he would receive a fair hearing. He then introduced Mr Carter, who said that absence he agan had the sgmJoto addressing them. He had hi, old friends since he last addressed them, but he hoped that the young generation would work as well for the interests of the colony as their fathers bad done. He hoped that the contest would be carried out without personalities, and he hoped the electors would chose, not a man who was well liked, but one who wouldJadvocate measures before men. He'drew largely on the distress that prevails now in the colony, and advocated reform. He did not agree with Sir George Grey iff a great many things, but he would say that' but for Sir George Grev, they would never have got reform. The Wairarapa had received favors from Sir George Grey notably the Small Farm settlements. He (Mr Carter) believed in a further extension of Small Farm Settlements, He was not influenced by any motive of personal gam in coming forward as a candidate. He did not ask them to consider him as entitled to their support on what done for them in the past, and enumejjgifjl all that he had got for Greytown wgKK before represented them He dffl&3» ask their support on these grounflßH after they had heard him, for rJBgE& would do for them in the wished them to understand thajiQuMH crisis they ought to work hand'' in hp§| He had no ill-feeling against the greaW land-holders, and did not wish to ietl
class against olass, but lie saw in his travels how tho upper classes had the upper hand, and when such is the case they always keep it, He believed in equal taxation. If all men were free and'equal, why should one class have advantages over another. We had all come to the country to better our condition, and thought we had left classes behind, but unless thoy took caro to elect the right men, it would soon be the same here as it was in England. Some people believed that the working man did not understand political economy. Ho believed that there was no science but what could bo solued by Common Sense. Capital was as necessary as Labor, and Labor as Capital, and if they worked more into one anothers 1 hands, there would be less strikes, as there was in England. Capital was the life-blood of the colony, and he would not, in the present state of the colony, retard the introduction of capital. He then touched on free trade, and said while in England ho believed in free trade and when in the Colonies, protection of Local industries by moderato duties, not as America and Victoria, and he thought the time had come for a duty on timber, The Financial condition of- the colony was serious; over 21 millions had been borrowed, and 5 millions more applied for. and very properly, he thought; but he would like to see that five millions being spent carefully on works that would pay interest, not in paying salaries, &&, as in the past bad administration of the colony, Capitalists at home were getting alarmed at the borrowing of Now Zealand, and he thought retrenchment necessary, or they would bo made to retrench. He thought tho North Island did not get her share of public works. He did not know what their members had been doing. A mistake had been made in raising the price of land from £1 to £2 an acre. It had stopped tho sale of land, and therefore had given the crediUo Sir Julius Vdgel; but though he had done some good, yet he had done a lot of evil, The main lines, such as Wellington to Napier, ought to bo finished first before they got branches here and there. He objected to immigration in the present state of the colony. He believed in manhodf Hmffrnge, but with a residence of twelve months and other things as well. He advocated triennial Parliaments and an equal distribution of seats, but not on a purely population basis, as it would give an unfair advantage to the towns. He did not believe in members receding L2lO per annum for their services. Some had voted against it and yet put it in their pockets to carry on this election with. He would say LI per day, orLIOO per annum, would be sufficient.
_ Dr Smith moved ihe following resolution :
" That it is the opinion of this meeting that Mr Charles Rooking Carter is a (it and proper person to represent us in the General Assembly," _ Mr H. H. Jackson seconded the motion.
Mr Revans begged to state that as the voting was by ballot, the show of hands would be of no consequence. The Chairman, hor/ever, put |tho resolution to the meeting, and asked for a show of hands. There were about 20 put up their hands, and the Chairman declared it carried.
Mr Revans begged to move, a vote of thanks to Mr Carter for his able address. He thought they could at least do this consistently. Mr Baillie seconded the vote of thanks, which was carried unanimously, A vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the business,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 243, 20 August 1879, Page 2
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937MR CARTER AT GREYTOWN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 243, 20 August 1879, Page 2
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