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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 562, 4 November 1902, Page 3

TO THE ELECTORS OFWAIAPU, YOUR ATTENTI . is drawn to the following Opinions and Facts, wLicli should convince you that you should vote " ~'o License" . A GREATER THAN LYSNAR. The Lyttelton Times of March las'makes "the kMowing comments on Clutha “ Neat and handsome cottages ate surrounded by trees . bright gardens, and green paddocks-. The town has a prospect of conn' ortatde prospenty. i Dwelling-houses are secured with great difficulty, and for each new building! now being erected there are four ci ! five applicants. Rates are paid promptly, and the borough finances are in good order The municipality ! has recently spent £IOOO in '’renting salevards. 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 llarvey. 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 are somewhat, puzzled to know why Mr W. D. Lysnar is so strongly opposed to Prohibition, but anyone carefully reading through his pamphlet can quickly perceive lus reason. He is afraid that if Prohibition is carried, lie will have to pay more for labor, and from his point of view that would be a terrible injustice. But why should Mr I.vsnar 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 stole, 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 he can only get a day’s work now and again. There is very little work going on, so I 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 iamous pamphlet '!— I

“ 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. 'lherc arc numerous instances oi men having been brought here and having had to he sent hack through not being suitable. “ UK FORK PROHIBITION, TIIKRK WAS NO NECESSITY FOR SENDING TO DUN Id DIN FOli LABOR, un,ess for special skilled workmen ; the men would stay here when tney were out of work, and when a farmer wanted a man there would be MEN FOR HIM 'J O 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 7—you will not he able to get men to worje lor 30s a week.” A WORD TO ALL BUSINESS MEN. Mr Lysnar says “ 1 next interviewed a baker. lie said : 1 1 have ton here 25 years. Prohibition is a very good thing it enables me to get my money in.” Would not the business men of Gisborne like to get their money in l

CLUTHA QUITE .SATISFIED. To the minds of all thoughtful electors it should be a sufficiently convincing proof of THE GOOD RESULTS of NO 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 H years under license there were 17 0 cases of drunkenness. During 41 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 Wa.iapu in which to give no-license a fair trial ? It is in every sense an ideal district for the reform, FOOD FOR BUSINESS MEN, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, then President of tlie Board of Trade, in 1801 issued a statement on wages and production, by which lie showed that—£loo spent in— Furniture gives £2O in wages Railways gives '. £3O in wages Clothing gives ~.. £32 in wages Shipbuilding gives £37 in wages Coalmining gives £55 in wages Beer gives £7 in wages npO STAND THIS SEASON, At ORMOND, , (In charge of Mr A. Tarsous), The Government Thoroughbred Staliion,

Black Horse. Pedi lUWARLIN Arbitrator-Hasty Girl MALACHI, ■se. Pedigree as follows :—By j VISTA Hermit-Bonnie Lassie TERMS: £3 3s for thoroughbred mares > £2 2s for ordinary mares. Arrangements for mares to be made with Mr A. Parsons. C. THOMSON, Inspector of Stock. EVERYONE USING EVERYONE USING EAST S BAKING POWDER Realises what a COMFORT AND DELIGHT It is to know that they have a Reliable Article in the House as an AID TO THE COOKING Of TABLE DELICACIES. EXCELLENT Stabling and Paddocking Accommodation for Horses are provided by Redstone A Son, of Lowe Street. The Arm have nearly a hundred acres of paddocking, and there is an abundance of feed. NEtV Table-top Sewing Machines now on view at “The Beehive.” Only £3, ft bargain. Secure early.