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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1242, 12 July 1884, Page 3

1 TO DONALD FRASER ESQ. Sift, — Wb the undersigned Electors of the Manawatu District, request chat you will allow [ yourself to be nominated as a candidate to represent the District m [ the House of Representatives at the ! forthcoming election. We are, Dear Sir, Yours respectfully, J. R. Forster-Pratt Bernard Newcombe Alexander Ferguson J. 0. Batchelar Kenneth McKenzie James King (And 203 other names) To J. R. Forster-Pratt, Alexander Ferguson, J. 0. Batchelar, Kenneth McKenzie, James King, Bernard Newcombe, Esqrs, and the 203 other gentlemen. f^\ ENTLEMEN,— In response to yyX your very iuflucntial and flattering requisition, I have great pleasure m allowing myself to be nominated as a candidate for the honoi of representing the Manawatu District m Parliament. It is my intention to meet the electors of this Distiict as often as it is possible before the election day and at not only the principal town^ ships, but also the various ridings qf the County m order to express my views upon the different important points. I may say that if I have the honor to be elected your representative, I will faithfully work for the good of your district and the whole colony, and be at all times ready to render to you an account of my stewardship. 1 am, gentlemen, Yours obediently. DONALD FRASER. MR DONALD FRASER will address the electors of the Manawatu as follows : — School House, Karere, Friday, 11th, 7 p.m. School House, Awahuri, Saturs day 12th, 7 p.m. School House Stoney Creek Monday 14th 7 p.m. School, House Taonui on Railway Line, Tuesday 15th 7 p.m. July 4th, 1884. To F. Y. LETHBRIDGE, Esq., G. M. SNELSON, Esq., and the other electors signing the requisitions, asking me to become a candidate for the Manawatu seat. GENTLEMEN, In response to your very nattering and gratifying request I have great pleasure m consenting to be nominated as a candidate for Manawatu at the coming election. I shall take an early opportunity of addressing the electors at the various- centres, aud explaining my political views m detail. In the meantime I may state that I am more m accord with the policy of the Atkinson Ministry than with that of any of the numerous leaders on the other side of the present House. Though that Ministry has no doubt made mistakes I believe the leading members of it have on the whole worked honestly ,according to. their lights, for the good of the colony at large, and that especially they have tried to promote' the prosperity of the country districts, by liberalising the land laws, and hy their scheme for tl^e construction of roads and bridges, 'the partial failure of which through want of funds is attributable to causes beyond the control of any Government. I cannot, however, agree with Mr Rol* leston's projected scheme of perpetual leasing, or with what it is now the fashion to call the nationalization of the land. Let the Crown lands be leased on the easiest terms compatible with due provision for survey and road making, but as under the present Act let a purchasing clause always be granted after a fair pro* portion of improvement has been made. The nationalisation of the land, I hold, is to settle it with freeholders m moderate sized blocks, trusting for revenue to the develops ment of the resources of the country caused by such settlement rather than to rents extracted by a Central Government from a State terx*. antry. 1 agree generally with the native policy of'the' Atkinson Ministry, and especially so with Mr Bryce's proposal for the resumption of the pre« emptive right. I am m favour of secular education, and as' iong as the finances of the colony warrant it, of free prim* ary education, and m any case of free education tip to the fourth standard, I should like to gee our railways managed by a' non pQlitibal&oard, the members of whicli should only be removable m the same manner as Judges of the Supreme Court. Other and minor questions I will deal with when addressing the electors face to face, If I have the honor to be elected, I can conscientiously say that I will endeavour to the best of my ability to represent the district as a whole, without bias m favour of any particular part of it, while remembering at the same time that a member is elected to watch over the interests of the colony at large. Your Obedient Servant. D. H. MACARTHUR. fe._s OLIVE BRANCH t^iBOYAL BLACK ' Vrj? PRECEPTORY $*A No, 462. A' CONVOCATION of Sir Knights of the above chapter will hold their regular monthly meeting, m the Foresters' Hall, Monday, July 14th, 1884, at 7.30 p.m. sharp Visiting Sir Knights are cordially invitee to attend. By command of W. Johnston, R.W.S.K T. JO ULAN, Registrar.