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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 556, 28 October 1902, Page 3

TO THE ELECTORS OF WAIAPU. YOUR ATTENTIO-. is drawn to the following Opinions and Facto, which should convince you that, you should vote “ No License" A GREATER THAN LYSNAR. The Lyttelton Times of March last makes the following comments on Clutha “Neat and handsome cottages aie surrounded by trees , bright gardens, and green paddocks. The town lias a prospect of coinf ortable prospctiO. Dwelling-houses are secured with great difficulty, and ior each new building now being erected there are four oi five applicants. Rates are paid promptly, and the borough finances are m good order. r lhe municipality has recently spent £IOOO in Meeting saleyards. which it will control. The local Lodge oi Oddfellows has erected a hall at a cost of iffiOOO. 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. Balclutha 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 arc somewhat puzzled to know why Mr W. D. Lysnar is so strongly opposed to Prohibition, but anyone carefully reading through ms pamphlet can quickly perceive his reason. He is afraid that if Prohibition is carried, he will have to pay more for labor, and from Ins point oi view that would be a terrible injustice. But why should Mr Lysnar be so contradictory in his statements ? For instance he gives us an account of an interview with an elderly lady in Balclutha, who kept, a general stoic, and who almost in the first breath is made to say : “My husband is a working man, and before Prohibition he bad ' 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 fiunous pamphlet “ Farmers and country people cannot get labor so readily now as they (iid before Prohibition, 'they have to send to labor-agents in Dunedin for men, and then do not. know who they are getting. “ r lbe employers have to pay in advance expenses lor getting men heie, as well as commission io the agents. There are numerous instances oi men having been brought here and having had to lie sent back through not being suitable. <> b E F () R 10 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 tanner wanted a man there would he 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 'l— you will not be able to get men to work for 30s a week. ’ A WORD TO ALL BUSINESS MEN, Mr Lysnar says

“ I next interviewed a baker. He said : ‘ t have teen here d 5 years, Prohibition is a very good thing—it enatiies me to get my money m."

Would noti the business men of Gisborne like to get their money in 1 CLUTHA QUITE SATISFIED, To the minds of all thoughtful electors it should be a sufficiently convincing proof of THE GOOD KESULIS oi NO EtC EN S E 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 1$ years under license there were IV 9 cases oi drunKenness. During -H yeaas under partial prohition there "were only eight cases of drunkenness, AN IDEAL DISTRICT TO TRY IT IN, Can the people of New Zealand find p more surname district than vvaiapu in which to give no-license a lair trial '! It is in every sense an ideal district for the reform, FOOD FOR BUSINESS MEN, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, then President oi the board of trade, in IS til issued a statement on wages and proauction, by which he showed that—£loo spent in— Furniture gives -£29 in Wages Railways gives EdO in wages Clothing gives. in wages Ship minding gives , £37 in wages Coalmining gives; ......... £55 in wages Beer gives .................... £7 ffi wages TENDERS FOR INLAND MAIL SERVICES FOR .1903. Government Post Office, Wellington, 21st October, 1902. SEALED TENDERS will be received at the Several Chief Post Offices in the Colony until FRIDAY, tlie 31st October. 1902 for the conveyance of Mails between the undermentioned places, for a period of one year, from the Ist January to the 31st December, 1903. POSTAL DISTRICT OF NAPIER 19. Napier and Wairoa via Mohak, and Tiniroto, weekly. POSTAL' DISTRICT OF GISI BORNE.

0. Gisborne and Wairoa, via Wae-renga-o-kuri, Tiniroto, Ruakituri. Maruinaru, and Frasertown. weekly. 12. Gisborne and Napier, via tVac-renga-o-kuri, Tiniroto, Ruakituri. Marumaru, Frasertown, Wairoa. Turiroa, and Mohaka, weekly. The lowest or any tender will no uecessarilv lie accepted. The attention of intending tenderer.' is directed to the terms and condition of contract printed at the back ot the tender forms. , . , Successful tenderers will lie required to show that they are in a position to satisfactorily carry out the services. Contractors whose tenders may be accepted must be prepared to carry on. the services for which they tender according to the time-tables framed !.■ the Department. Particular attention is directed to clause 2B of terms and conditions. , , Forms of tender, with the terms and conditions of contract, may be procured at any post office. , . No tender will he considered unlc-s made on the printed form. Tenders, endorsed “lender tor Mad Service No. .’’to be addressed .0 the Chief Postmaster ot tae postal district 10 which the tender may specially refer. GRAY, Secretary*