MR. LEE AND PROHIBITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 266, 9 November 1928, Page 12

MR. LEE AND PROHIBITION.

" DEMOLISHING LIBERAL

MONUMENTS."

ANOTHER ATTACK ON REFORM

There was a fair audience to hear the continuation of Mr. J. A. Lee's campaign in St. Andrew's Hall last evening when the Labour candidate for Auckland East again made »n attack on Reform and its methods.

He spoke first of the United party, and said it was trying to pull down all the great State institutions which remain as monuments to "the greatest of all Liberals. Richard Seddon." He said that the Liberals of to-day had so little in common with the policy of the past that it was small wonder that they wanted to change their name. United party candidates had allied themselves with the Reform Government and its scheme for altering the incidence of taxation.

"But we, Labour, are not satisfied" that the man with £10,000 a year should pay only 4/6 in the £," said Mr. Lee. He did not expect that the man with £10.000 would vote for him. His vote would go to Reform, but it was the man with £400 or £500 to whom the Reform party was no friend.

Mr. Lee went on to say that great hardship would result to many workers in the brewing industry in the event of prohibition without provision for compensation. It was all very well to say that a pound saved on drink was a pound more for safety-pins and tape. That would not find work for the man who had been in the trade for 20 years. Mr. Lee would always stand for a fair deal for those men in the event of no-license. He himself voted State Control.

Several other matters in the Reform policy were dealt with by Mr. Lee, and the meeting closed with a vote of confidence in the candidate.