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Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1260, 18 April 1883, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I To the Electors of Inangahua, | GENTLEMEN,— I thank your heartily | for the honor you have done me in asking me, a stranger to you, except by reputation, to become a candidate for election for your District I accept the handsome requisition you have sent me as an indication that you desire as your representative in Parliament a Colonial politician of broad views and long experience, and on that understanding I have much pleasure in acceding to your request. After the compliment you have paid me I think I ought to lose no time in making your acquaintance personally I propose, therefore, to visit you in the course of the next few days, and to spend Borne time among you, in order that you may know what sort of a man I am, and I may know as much as possible about your part of the Colony, your interests, and sentiments with regard to public affairs. As I shall address you at all the centres of population, I will keep what I. have to say about politics until I meet you face to .face. I am, Gentlemen, Faithfully yours, .Edward Wakefield. TO THE ELECTORS - OF THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF INANGAHUA. GENTLEMEN.— Having been solicited by many influential gentlemen of your district to contest the vacant seat in the House of Representatives, caused by the resignation of your late member Mr Weston, I deem it desirable to delay deciding definitely upon my action in the matter until a further expression of opinion has been arrived at by you, either by requisition or by public meeting. As I have been connected with mining interests and have lived for a term of years — say about twenty-four, (24) amongst mining communities I can be no stranger to the wants and requirements of your district. As the medium of newspaper communication must necessarily be brief I shall delay until I meet you personally, (and when for you to say) expressing my views upon the many important matters affecting your interests. The following points, point to certain clauses in my political catechism which I beg to submit for your approval (or otherwise), for the simple reason that I will not depart from taem on any account : — 1. I am in favor of the immediate construction of the East Coast Railway via Reefton. 2. lam in favor of constructing and maintaining at the expense of the General Government, a main trunk dray road from the Big Grey to Charleston. 8. I am in favor of the taking over by the Government of the Reefton and Westport dray road, and maintaining the same. 4 lam in favor of expending large suras of money on Greymouth and Westport harbors, so as to allow large vessel?, say of 2,000 tons, to enter and depart in safety. 5. I am favor of the adoption of the Nelson Provincial School System, which has given so much satisfaction to all classes and shades of belief. 6. lam in favor of the policy of the present Government, though when I contested a Wellington seat some time since I did not, but they have given evidence of considerable improvement since then. Major Atkinson's scheme for compulsory National Insurance I regard as an outcrop of the Major's fanaticism, yet in his lucid moments he has in view more • the interests of the rich than the poor. 7. I am in favor of the entire abolition of the Gold Duty which I think wonld be more beneficial to the miner, than the hanks, notwithstanding what may be said to the contrary. 8. I am in favor of local elections for the appointment of Inspector of Mines, on the grounds that miners themselves should be the best judges of the fitness of candidates. 9. I am in favor of establishing homes for the " Confirmed Inebriates" ■ to be maintained by fines imposed in the Magistrate'sCourte for drunkenness the control of such house's to be under the different Temperance Societies in «-ach district, thereby making the Drunkards support the Drunkard" This I imagine is a better scheme than Major Atkinson's for putting down pauperism. 10. I am in favor of a lot of other good things, which I will not disclose until I meet you in the flesh, as my opponents might take advantage of the.a, and claim their originality. I have the honor to be, Sirs, Your obedient Servant, THOS. DWAX.