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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 555, 27 October 1902, Page 3

TO THE ELECTORS OF WAIAPU YOUR ATTENTION i. drawn to the following Opinions and Facts, which should convince you that you should vote “ No License' 1 A GREATER THAN LYSNAR. The Lyttelton Times of March last makes the following comments on Clutha “ Neat and handsome cottages are surrounded by trees , bright gardens, and green paddocks. The town has a [ prospect of eomf ortable prosperity. Dwelling-houses are secured with great dinicultv, and for each new building now being erected there are four cr five applicants. Rates are paid promptly, and the borough finances are in good order. ’I he municipality has recently spent £I<JUU in ’reeling saleyards, which it will control. The local Lodge of Oddfellows has erected a hall at a cost of £2OOO. A smaller hall has been erected to the memory of Captain Harvey. A pipe band ;s being formed, and the borough is the headquarters for two first-class volunteer corps. The business people seem to be doing well, some very well. Bankrupts and street drunkards are racing to extinction. Swaggers are following in the same direction. Balclulha could not reasonably expect to enjoy more solid comfortable prosperity without booming than it is doing at present.” WHY MR LYSNAR IS OPPOSED TO “NO LICENSE.” Electors are somewhat puzzled to know wdiy Mr W. D. Lysnar is so strongly opposed to Prohibition, but anyone carefully reading through his pamphlet can quickly perceive his reason. He is afraid that if Prohibition is carried, he will have to pay more for labor, and from his point of view that would be a terrible injustice. But why should Mr Lysnar he so contradictory in his statements ? For instance he gives us an account of an interview with an elderly lady in IJalclutha, who kept a general store, and who almost in the first breath is made to say : “My husband is a working man, and before Prohibition he had plenty of work about Balclutha. Now lie can only get a day’s work now and again. There is very little work going on, so 1 am forced to try and do something.”

That was very good, but how can Mr Lysnar justify that statement with the following appearing on the same page of his famous pamjphlet ? “ Farmers and country people cannot get labor so readily now as they did before Prohibition. They have to send to labor-agents in Dunedin for men, and then do not know who they are getting. “ The employers have to pay in advance expenses for getting men here, as well as commission to the agents. There are numerous instances ot men having been brought here and having had to lie sent back through not being suitable. « 0 10 F 0 R E PROHIBITION, THERE WAS NO NECESSITY; FOR SENDING- TO DUNEDIN FOR LABOR, un.ess for special skilled workmen ; the men would stay heie when tney were out of work, and when a farmer wanted a man there would be MEN FOR HIM TO PICK FROM HERE.” Why did not Mr Lysnar reply to the following question at the Theatre ? “ Will you not have to pay .higher wages then ?—you will not be able to get men to worki for 30s a week.” A WORD TO ALL BUSINESS MEN, Mr Lysnar says “ I next interviewed a baker. He said : ‘ I have been here 23 years. Prohibition is a very good thing it enables me to get my money m. Would not the business men of Gisborne like to get their money in ?

CLUTHA QUITE SATISFIED. ' To the minds o£ all thoughtful electors it should be a sufficiently convincing proof of THE GOOD KESULIE of N O LICENSE that Clutha, after trying it for three years, again took it on for another three years. What are Mr Lysnar’s so-called facts compared to this one great fact that Clutha is quite satisfied with no license ?

NO drunkenness, During years under license there were 179 cases o£ drunkenness. During yeans under partial prohition there were only eight, cases of drunkenness. AN IDEAL DISTRICT TO TRY IT IN, Can the people of New Zealand find a more suitable district than Wai.ypu in which to give no-license a lair trial ? It is in every sense an ideal district [or the reform,. FOOD FOR BUSINESS MEN. Sir Michael Hicks Beach, then President of the Board of Trade, m 1891 issued a statement on wages and production, by which he showed that—£loo spent in—£29 in wages £3l) in wages £32 in wages £37 in wages Furniture gives * &■ Railways gives £ Clothing gives *; Shipbuilding gives £ Coalmining gives) & Beer gives ;sf> in evages £7 in wages

LAUMORY UJUCATIOIi am AND Mitti CoXON, LAUNDRY EXPERTS, Has commenced giving Lessons to Ladies in WHINRAY'S HALL, on Starching, Ironing, and PolishingShirts and Collars, Private Lessons will be given in the evenings on Blouses, Bonnets, Gotiering, and Crimping; also, Cleansing and Pressing. Hours o£ Instruction: 10 till 12 a.m., and 2 till 5 p.m. Evening Instruction: Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, irom 7 to J. Ladies are requested to bring a Shirt and Collar with them. Terms : Morning Lessons, 2s Od; Afternoon and Evening, Is tid. Arrangements made for a course oi lessons.

W. s. COLLINS, WATCHMAKER, JEWELLER, DIAMOND-SETTER, AND ENGRAVER, Gladstone road, Gisborne (Next Mr H. J. Bushnell's). BEGS TO ANNOUNCE —That he has— OPENED UP A NICELY-SELECTED STOCK -Of— ELECTRO PLATE JEWELLERY. WATCHES WEDDING RINGS ENGAGEMENT RINGS STERLING SILVER GOODS W. S. C. will continue the MANUFACTURING BUSINESS hitherto conducted by him, ar.d while thanking the Public for the Liberal support in the past, solicits further orders, and guarantees satisfaction in respect to work entrusted to him.