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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 561, 3 November 1902, Page 3

TO THE ELECTORS OF WAIAPU. YOUR ATTL’NT. .. is drawn to the following Opinions ami Rae'.s, which should convince you that you should vote " No License’ l A GRLATKR THAN LYSNAR. The Lyttelton Times of March last makes the following comments on Clutha ■— “ Neat and handsome cottages are surrounded by trees , bright gardens, j and green paddocks. The town has a prospect of comfortable prospeiity: Dwelling-houses are secured with great difficulty, and for each new building now being erected there are four ti five applicants. Rates are paid promptly, and the borough finances are in good order. The municipality has recently spent £IOOO in ?recting saleyards, which it will control. The local Lodge of Oddfellows ha-s 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 en.ioy 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 IV. D. Lysnar is so strongly opposed to Prohibition, blit 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 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 Balclutha, 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 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, hut 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. “ 'l'lie employers have to pay iu advance expenses lor getting men here, as well as commission to the agents. There are numerous instances oi men having been brought here and having had 10 be sent back through not being suitable. “ BEFORE PROHIBITION, THERE WAS NO NECESSITY,FOR SENDINO 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 be able to get men to worfa for 30s a week.” A WORD TO ALL BUSINESS MEN,. Mr Lysnar says “ I next interviewed a halier. He said : ‘ I have been here 35 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 \\ years under license there were 17 D cases of drunkenness. During 4t 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, ' -S Sir Michael Hicks Beach, then President of the Board of Trade, in 1891 issued a statement on wages and production, by which lie showed that—€loo spent in— Furniture gives , £29 in wages Railways gives £3O in wages Clothing gives' , £32 in wages Shipbuilding gives 1 £37 in wages Coalmining gives £55 in wages Beer gives £7 in wages

WILLIAMS AND KETTLE, ■Limited, Will hold their NEXT STOCK SALE At the MATAWHERO YARDS, On THURSDAY NEXT, Oth NOVEMBER, When they will offer : sheer, cattle, ms, etc. 1000 150 Present Entries : SHEEP, Including Ewes, Lambs, Hoggets, Wethers, etc. HEAD OF CATTLE, Including 50 3-year-old Steers (good quality) oq Young Steers Weaners, Dairy Cows, and Springing Heifers. On account of Macfarlane’s Estate: O!-' CHOICE DAIRY COWS AND HEIFERS. GOOD PORKERS. Sale at 11.30 a.m. Further Entries invited. A. F. KENNEDYAuctioneer. EXCELLENT Stabling and Paddocking Accommodation for Horses are provided by Redstone & Son, of Lowe Street. The firm have Dearly a hundred acres of paddocking, and there is an abundance of feed.

JUST ARRIVED —On Sale, at Mrs M. Cavanagh’s (late H. Warren), PingPong Sets and Extra Balls. IF you are organising a Picnic call and see J. R. Redsioxe & Sox. They can supply you with all manner of vehicles, and I direct you to the best picnic grounds. TEN PER CENT Reduction in Horse-shoeing <%>, at J- H. Ormond's only. Take it to Ormond's. IF your Watch won’t go, take it to H. R. Smith, of the Goldsmiths’ Hall, Gladstone road, next Firebell. Table-top Sewing Machines now on J.M view at "Tht Beehive." Only £3, a bargain. Secure eaily.