THE GISBORNE SEAT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 57, 1 December 1919, Page 8

THE GISBORNE SEAT

By Telegraph-Press Association. Wairoa, November 30. •Mr. W. D. Lvoiiar, Independent candifS date for the Gisborno seat, opened hiss campaign at Wairoa last night. There •was a largo and representative audience, and the .candidate α-eceived a good bearing. He dealt with politics generally, on eimilar lines to his Gisborne address. Ho 6tated he supported tho urgent prosecution of the liast Coast railway and the Waikaremomia scheme of hydro-electric-ity. Tho coming system was a storage battery, which had been successfully- used in America and England and proved highly satisfactory. Asked was lie, in the past, a strong supporter of Sir .lames Carroll and his Native land policy, he replied: "Yes." He said be found when Sir James Carroll was Cabinet Minister ]ie could get something done, but since then he had found it impossible When he had written ho had received no reply, fiid it was owing to Sir James Carroll's inaction that he had been compelled to opjwse him. Further asked did he deny this at Gisborne, ,Mr. Lysnar replied, "No." He had insisted to put Sir .lames Carroll in Parliament, but. he was not the only man he had put. into office. He had put the Mayor of Gisborne in, and when bhey found he was not doing what r<? 'j; 10,1 !' 1 tI,E J'' lla<l I"'!' liiin out again. If, said he, "a man will not stand up to do your fighting, get someone else wlio will'' Questioned whether ill wa< right tihat soldiers must have ,£sofl before they «et in a ballot, he replied "No;" when a. man was skilled for the work he should' get in without capital, the Government backing him. H mighli be necessary where a man had no experience to insist on him ihaving capital, i A vote of thanks waa carried with loud applause.

.THE BRUCE SEAT . By Telegraph— Vreis Aesocinlion. Dunetlin, November 30. ■ Mr. John Edie. who is contesting the liriico seat in tlio ]liberal . interest nifliinst .Sir James Allen, addressed n large mcetiii!! at Knil;in;,'iiln- Mr. Eftie s:\Ul ths .'[iiuVlcr <•( T.iinds bud recently etiitcd that cvo'/ylhins r.a?.sil)U> was being .' i.'onc l« pnl" hirnl for retunr.'d soldiers. 'fbn r:indif!i!h> tontoiitled that Ihis was ■" not so. He lmd received n loiter from ■ the C.'roivn lands oliiccr, who staled that t.'ie Driees nslccci by many owners for their land w;is <i dissraei-. The only ralnlioii iias- filiiev, to wail until lam 1 ciime down in price or put the comjuili tnrv eiaiHM in operalinu. The Jlinis- / te/s oliicpM. rtii(i Ifr. Ildie, wndenined liini out of his o.vn mouth. The candin.ite favoured doing away with all grants for local works, Riving a substantial sub- , sidy of, say, ten shillings in tho pound, on all rates raised.