The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED DAILY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928. LEST THE ELECTORS FORGET!

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10732, 1 November 1928, Page 4

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED DAILY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928. LEST THE ELECTORS FORGET!

It is invariably tho rule in coupe c lion - with- political campaigns that hard-hitting candidates have'the liveliest meetings- Mr Lysnar, for instance l , never has a tame big meeting and, when he met the electors hit the City Hall on Tuesday evening, interjections were, as usual, the order of the evening. After so much experience, however; Mr Lysnar is now quite at home on the platform and the hecklers failed to get any change out of him, although they may justly lay credit to having assisted in keeping the gathering in a very good humour. Mr Lysnar, it will have been noted, did a great deal in addition to providing an account of his own political stewardship. In a most convincing manner, he showed that the husiness-like Reform Government, throughout a most trying period, has used its utmost endeavours to solve the numerous difficult problems' that have ariseu. What was by no means the least important feature of his address was, indeed, his emphatic declaration that he would not have been honest to himself, to his constituency, or 'to the Dominion as a whole if he had not, in the circumstances, given the present Government all the support that lay in his power.. Coming, as it did, from a member who is so noted for his independence o.f mind, it was a flattering testimonial for the Government, Mr Lysnar, we feel, did well to impress on the electors—not that it really should have been necessary—just how much this portion of the Dominion owes to the Reform Government, more especially from the time when Mr Coates was given Cabinet rank and entered upon the monumental task of revitalising and l -strengthening the Public Works Department, with the object of undertaking a truly progressive programme of State works. The backward state of the East Coast districts in the matter of development works in the days when the Liberals were in power must ever provide painful memories. With the Hon. K. S. Williams as successor to Mr Qoates in charge of the Department or Public Works, this portion of the Dominion is, of course*, assured that, in the future, its further legitimate requirements will also not bo neglected. In the circumstances, it is really inconceivable that the electors, of Gisborne and of the Bay ■ of ; Plenty will turn down Mr Copies ' by rejecting the Reform Party , candidates. What they have to hear in blind is this: that Labor’s representatives in Parliament have never shown any particular interest 1 in the East Coast, districts and that it would also be quite easy to prove that the Liberals are not likely to ho any more solicitous in the future in • regard to. the welfare • of this portion of the Dominion than they wfg€» when they-held ofSoe. ?