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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1244, 15 July 1884, Page 3

TO DONALD FRASER ESQ SIR, — We the undersigned Kbctors of the Manawatu District, request tbat you will allow yourself to be nominated as a candidate to represent the District m the House, of Representatives atthe forthcoming election. We are, Dear Sir, Yours respectfully^ J. R. Forster-Pratt Bernard NewcombeAlexander 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 JNewcombe, Esqrs, and the 203 other gentlemen. GENTLEMEN,— In response to your very iuflucntial and flattering requisition, I have great pleasure m allowing myself to be nominated as a candidate for the honoi of representing tbe 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 townships, but also the various ridings of the County m order to express my views upon the different important points. I may say that if I have the honor V* A\e elected your representative, I wra 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. j

ME DONALD PBASEE will address the electors of the Manawatu as follows : — School House Taonui on Eailway Line, Tuesday 15th 7 p.m. July 4th, 1884. To F. Y. LETHBEIDOE, Esq., ft. 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 flattering and. gratifying request I have great pleasure m consenting to be nominated as a candidate for Manawatu a-t the coming election. I shall take an early opportunity of addressing the electors at the various centres, and 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 fie good of the oolony at large, and that especially they have tried to promote the prosperity of the country districts by liberalising the land laws, andb? their scheme for the 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 Bol« leston's projected scheme of perpetual leasing, or with what it is now the fashion to call the. nationalization qf the land. Let the Or.p.^n 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 J made. The truest nationalisation of the land. I hold, is to settle it with, freeholders m moderate si^ed $,p.ci|s,' trusting fftr. reYenqe toA the deYeiop* ; n^'nt of t|ie resovirces of the country caused by siich settlemeiit rather than to rents extracted by a Central Government from a' State tens antry. I agree generally with the native policy of the A tkinson 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 long as the finances of the colony warrant it, of free prims* ary education, and m any case .of free education up to the fourth standard, I should like to see our railways managed by a non- political Jpoetrd; the members of which should pnlj'be' s removable* m the same fanner* as 1 Judges of'the Supreme CQurt, Other '"md minor questions I will 4eal with wben acldregeiflg the eleotors, face tg face, jf t have the honor to be eleoted, 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. J Yo^y Obedient Servant. v i): k i MACAE , rHUE.

1 OPENING, NOTICE, nm vmwtmz WAREHOUSE. MESSRS gIMMONDS & pEG DEN HAVR much pleasure m notifying to the residents of Palmerston and adjacent districts, the- opening of iheir New Furniture, floor Cloths Carpers, Fancy Goods, and Crockery Warehouse, next to Wolleiman and Hutehespn'ij store, TO-DAY, SATURDAY, JULY 12. Full particulars iv future issue.