POLITICAL NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13987, 25 November 1919, Page 4

POLITICAL NOTES.

ISSUE OP THE WRITS,

It was announced by the Prime Minister yesterday that the writs for both the European and Maori elections will be issued on November 28th, Fridaynext. Nominations for the European elections will close on December 6th. Nominations for the Maori elections' will close on December. Bth. The Maori polling day will be December lGth. The polling day for the European elections will be December 17th. Writs for the European elections am returnable *on December 26th, and for the Maori elections on January 9th. THE BLUDGEONING POLICT. When Mr Fred Pirarii, Liberal candidate for the Wellington Central seat,. sought to address a meeting of electors At the Aro street Mission Hall, Wellington, last night, he was accorded another Labour reception, such as he received at' St. Peter's last week. The candidate was throughout the meeting subjected to close range interjeetory fire, and at times was completely .silenced by the babel of voices and hail of questions and ejaculations simultaneously uttered by members of the audience. Only in the concluding stages of the meeting, when questions were inVited, was the candidate given a fa/r opportunity of making his voie.e.J^giitfa , . At the conclusion of the meeting , several motions were! put, and finally a vote of no-confidence in the candiSateas a representative for the Wellington Central seat was declared carried. A CANDIDATE'S REPLY. Among the questions put to Mr D. G. O 'JBrien, Liberal candidate for the Boiler electorate, a this initial address ie Westport last night was, if elected, would he be in favour of restoring political rights to conscientious objectors. , , The candidate, amid applause, re» plied: "Yes, if you will bring back my dead mates from France." GO-SLOW LAND MONOPOLISTS. Speaking at Ormondville, Mr A. Ei. Jull, Liberal candidate for Waipawa,. said he ha-d farewelled men going t» the front and. had welcomed them back. In general with other public mea he had assured the men that the country would look after their interests, and particularly when they* came back the country would look after their welfare. The.country had given the, men a pledge. Was it being carried <vtf "You will be told,* , he said, "that eight or nine million pounds have been spent on land for the men, and something like 12 millions are r>3ady to be spent to seftle the boys on the land. Well, some have been settled on the land—well settled. (Laughter.) Some failures were inevitable, but the men were entitled to a chance to prove if they could succeed. To do that tbey must be given land at a reasonable price. Mr Massey said he was not itt favour of compulsory acquisition, but unless compulsory power were ,aken no Government would ever settle %h.p> land question of this country. (Loud applause.) The present system of men purchasing small areas, and loading themselves up with first, second and third mortgages for high-priced land, .did not give them a working "chance. Every large land owner vvho was not getting* as much off' his land is it should produce was as flagrant an example of the "go-slow" policy as the* "go-slow" worker, and it was the laml of such people that first should oe acquired. • ' AN AUCTION BID. Speaking at Ashburtou, the Hon. W. Nosworthy said that Mr Massey tiizl to get Sir Joseph Ward to assist in fettling the gratuity question before ilia Coalition broke up, and the latter declined to do it. Then, when the Reform Government came down with a proposal of Is (id per day, Sir Joseph Ward moved fo increase the amount to 2s. The Liberal Leader thought, that this sort of thing would count. There were supposed to be uncertain men who iv.-nld vote in the House for the extra Ud ; ani then later, when electioneering, would get up on the platform and say, "We voted for the extra 6d." Mr Nosworthy thought that the conduct >f ihc Liberals in this matter was discreditable. "BOLSHEVIK!" \ "As to aggregation of land, there,is only one way of dealing with it," sii& Mr Pirani, speaking at Aro street list night. A voice: "Why didn't you deal with it when your party was in power for twenty years?" Mr Pi rani said that he would stop aggregation by refusing title to anyone desiring to acquire more than the proper amount. And if a man was holding land which he was not using to full advantage, he thought the State should take this land at the Government valuation. A voice: Bolshevik!