WAIRARAPA SEAT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13982, 19 November 1919, Page 5

WAIRARAPA SEAT.

ME HOBNSBY AT WHAKATAKT.

Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, M.R, the Liberal candidate for the Wairarapa, addressed a good gathering of electors in the local schoolroom last Thursday, writes our Whakataki correspondent. Air G. H. Innes was in the chair, and the candidate was well received. Mr Hornsby said that his opponnet, Mr McLeod, in his addresses, had referred to the prosperous state of the farms around Martinborough and in the Lower Valley district, but, stated Mr Hornsby, he did not say that it was due to his (Mr Hornsby's) efforts through the cuttingup of large estates that the present state of affairs .existed. "I will not stay in No-Man's-Land to be shot at," stated the candidate, "but I must either go into the Liberal or the Eeform trench, and, of course, I could not go into the latter, nor have Lany wish to, so I must take my stand with the Liberal Party." Mr Hornsby said he strongly believed in co-operation, and quoted as an example the case of Madame Beauciceaux, who died the richest woman in Europe. The candidate said that in, his opinion he did not think that giving more wages would solve the labour problem, for when wages were risen so would produce be risen, and so

on. Mr Hornsby said that lately he, as one of the Industries Commission, visited the coal mines at Westport, and, strange to say, the mine where the miners were the most fairly dealt with, was the place -where sedition- was most rampant. l\ r o questions being forthcoming, the speaker, on the motion of the chairman, was accorded, a hearty of thanks. A similar compliment to the chair concluded a most successful

meeting.

Mr d f . T. M. Hornsby addressed a large attendance of electors at Bideford last night. Mr Carswell, of Bideford, was in the chair, and the speech, which was listened to most attentively, was mainly on the lines of previous addresses. In the course of his remarks the speaker stated that Mr A. D. McLeod would be unable, owing to serious illness in his family, to address any meetings north of Carterton for some time, but dates would be fixed later. On the motion of Mr Hornsby, a motion of sympathy with Mr McLeod and family was carried unanimously. At the conclusion of the meeting the candidate received a hearty vote of thanks.