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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 563, 5 November 1902, Page 3

TO THE ELECTORS OF WfllflPU. VOL'R ATTENTION is 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 las* makes the following comments oil Clutha “ Neat and handsome cottages ate surrounded by trees , bright gardens, and green paddocks. The town has a prospect of comfortable prosperity. Dwelling-houses are secured with great difficulty, and for eacli new building now being erected there are four u live applicants. Rates are paid promptly, and the borough finances are in good order. The municipality has recently spent £loon in '.'retting saleyards, which it will control. The local Lodge oi Oddfellows lias erected a hall at a cost of £2OOO. A smaller hall has been erected to the memory of Captain Harvey. A pipe band is 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 arc racing to extinction. Swaggers arc following in the same direction. Balclutha could not reasonably expect to en.ioy more solid comfortable prosperity without booming than it is doing at present." WIIY 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 his 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 he 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 Balclulha, 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 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 pamphlet ? !

“ 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 hacl to Im sent back through not being 'Suitable. “ 13 K 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 here 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 lie able to get men to wolds for 30s a week.” A .WORD TO ALL BUSINESS MEN, Mr Lysnar says “ I next interviewed a baker. He said : 1 1 have been 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 ? 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 4£ years under license there were 178 cases of drunkenness. During 44 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 Waiapu 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 the Board of Trade, in 1891 j issued a statement on wages and pro- -J duction, by which he 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 nr.O STAND THIS JL SEASON, At ORMOND. (In charge of Mr A. Parsons), The Government Thoroughbred Staliion, MALACHI, Black Horse. Pedigree as followsßy KIWAIILIN VISTA Arbitrator-Hasty Girl Hermit-Bonnie Lassie 1 I f'i 1 s TERMS: £3 3a 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 Relialle Article in the House as an AID TO THE COOKING Citable DELICACIES. EXCELLENT Stabling and Paddocking Accommodation for Horses are provided by Redstone A Son, of Lowe Street. The firm have nearly a hundred acres of paddocking, and there is an abundance of feed.

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