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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1943, Page 4

FOR URGENT REPAIRS. EXIDE BATTERIES AND ACCESSORIES. “CHAR” FOR GAS PRODUCERS IN STOCK. THOS. WAGG & CO., LTD. Phones 1022 & 2224 - - MASTERTON

MISS, M. G. MCGREGOR For DISTINCTIVE FLORAL TRIBUTES. Address: 30 Essex Street Ring 1869.

A Personal Letter to the People pf the Masterton Electorate. ★ FROM AIRCRAFTMAN DONALD THOMPSON. Owing to the limited time at my disposal, I was unable to cover the Electorate as I would have' liked. I wish to apologise to certain country districts for being unable to address them. My personal letter to electors, which is reprinted below, states my case in as few words as possible. DEAR CITIZEN,— The time has come when. New Zealanders must take a hand in the governing of their own country. Too long have we left our affairs in the hands of persons who have just drifted here. It is high time also that this district was represented by someone who is. not just a visitor. A Member of Parliament must mean more to a. community than someone who is merely shifted round at a party’s convenience. He should be a man of the district; born there, living there, rearing a family there, working there. I fulfil all these conditions, and to them I add youth. And that is not to be despised. So often old men round off a careel' by standing for Parliament. If they had the real interests of the country at heart, why did they not come forth at their prime? I stand for a party because he who stands alone is merely a voice crying in the wilderness. You know where you are with a party man. This is the age of co-operation, of working in groups. And only by working together will anything be achieved. I stand with a courageous man who was strong enough to break with and shake a mighty party—a man who said that all the schemes of social betterment would fail unless the key to it all was in the hands of the People — The Money Power of the Nation. LEE STANDS FOR REAL LABOUR AND TRUE DEMOCRACY. We are all workers in this country, and there is no room for anyone else. Whether you be a farmer or a factory hand, a coal-miner or a dentist, a clerk or a butcher, a lawyer or a nurse, or the greatest worker of them all, and the most poorly paid, a mother of children. Each must make his or her. contribution to the common weal. We are all part of a vast economic unit, which must work together, live together and pull together. There is no class in this country. There are a few misguided persons who think themselves superior people, but, believe me, they don’t count. I appeal to all courageous men and. women who have a vision of a new New Zealand; who can see something better than selfish party interests; who have the courage and the intelligence to reach forward and grasp firmly the undoubted possibilities of the future. May we all, as good New Zealanders, march forward together, to win, not only the war, but the peace. And that it may be a peace with prosperity and promise. Yours sincerely, DONALD THOMPSON.

LATE ADVERTISEMENT. TARARUA ELECTRIC POWER BOARD. NOTICE OF SHUT-DOWN PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that 1 the electricity will be completely cut off the whole of this Board’s area, next Sunday, September 26, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.0 p.m., to allow the Public Works Department to carry out urgent repairs to their main transmission line. D. FRASER, Engineer-Manager.

MR ROBERTSON I! Don’t Retire Please allow the Early Settlers, Whom you insulted and misrepresented, And their families and hosts of friends, THE SATISFACTION OF VOTING YOU OUT!.

■’A z/AU ■ : W'' ■ life ' A ■_-- THE SHORTWEIGHT LOAF Facts That Cant be Sidestepped The Government’s excuse that bakers were Under this law, the weight of bread was always \ v formerly allowed to sell bread at any weight is effectively regulated, and bakers were prosecutuntrue. , , ed for even trifling discrepancies. The position has always been governed by the following clauses from the Sale of Food and Every baker was obliged by law to state the Drugs Act, 1908:— weight of the loaf he was selling. “Clause 26. (1) Every person commits an » offence who sells any bread the weight of Comnare this with the Fraser Government to X the technique. A specification issued to bakers by weight which the buyer demands. the Standards Institute was backed up by an (2) Every person who sells any loaf weigh- Order-in-Couhcil prescribing a new minimum ing at the time of sale.less than four pounds W oi°ht but more than three pounds shall be deemed . “ ’ to represent that it weighs four pounds un- Why was the specification not made public? less he states its true weight to the buyer at ■ „ ... the time of sale. . Did YOU know that the split loaf (lai the (3) Every person who sells any loaf weigh- commonest type of loaf) was now to be sold ing at the time of sale less than two four Qunces below its nominal weight? pounds but more than one pound shall be deemed to represent that it weighs two Disre gard ministerial camouflage. Vote for pounds unless he stales its true weight to . the buyer at the time of sale.” straightforward methods. Change the Government Tomorrow! s; NATIONAL