General Election

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 194, 19 August 1935, Page 7

General Election

Mr W. D. Lysnar In the Fight Again

TO STAND FOR GISBORNE Per Press Association. GISBORNE, Last Night. Mr William Douglas Lysnar, formerly member for Gisborne, who was defeated in a three-cornered contest by Mr D. W. Coleman at the last General Election, announced yesterday h • decision to stand against all coiners this year. It is understood to be unlikely that the National Folitical Federation will nominate a candidate, and consequently Mr Lysuar and -Mr Colemar will' fight a straight contest.

Still Another Independent Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Last Night. At the request of a deputation which waited upon him, Mr Norman Maciutyre, of Tussock Creek, has consented to contest the Awarua scat at the General Election. He will stand as aj Independent.

Empire Free Trade MR. DOIDGE’S ADVOCACY Per Press Association. ROTORUA, Aug. 17. An emphatic denial to a statement made by Hon. 18. G. .Smith, Minister of Education, during a political address at Invercargill on Thursday concerning Free Trade, was given by Mr. F. W. Doidgc, Independent candidate for the Rotorua seat at the general election. "Mr. Smith has in recent speeches twice declared that the fiscal policy I advocate, if carried into effect, would spell the end of every secondary industry in New Zealand,” stated Mr. Doidge. "The policy I advocate would do nothing of the kind, and I. would like to know whether cupidity or stupidity is what prompted the Minister to make this statement. A Customs union within the Empire is what I plead for. Always I have been at the greatest pains to explain just what that policy means—a tariff war against the foreigner and the greatest possible measure of free trade in the Empire, bearing in mind that in the Dominions are certain well-established secondary industries which must necessarily bo sheltered. The Press throughout New Zealand has given my utterances on this subject the widest publicity. There can be no excuse for the Minister’s lack* of understanding.”

Hon A. D McLeod’s Farewell Address

ADVICE TO ELECTORS MASTERTON, Aug. 17. Addressing a farewell political meeting at Martinborough last night, Hon. A. D. McLeod warned electors that if they did not wish to be governed by political Labour they required to do some hard thinking for themselves during the next three months or so. "Diehard” Tories, Empire Free Trade dreamers, and Independents of political opportunist types were being organised to remove the present Government from office, and this, of course, must assist political Labour in many electorates.

It was nonsense to say that millions had been put in the pockets of farmers at the expense of all other sections of New Zealand's population, as a result of pegging up the exchange, said Mr. McLeod. Provided the cost of living was not forced up as a result, surely the infusion of millions of purchasing power through the 'basic industry of tho country must beneficially assist many other sections of the community. If that wero not so, how camo it, for instance, that numbers of employers were ablo to restore wages and salary cuts? Those stating that Britain would ever bo williug to enter into separate trade agreements with her different Dominions were either deliberately or ignorantly misleading the electors. AVas it possible for any British Government to enter into a trade agreement with New Zealand, say, upon butter aud meat less advantageous to Canada and Australia without quickly breaking up tho Empire. If it were fully realised that Australia aud Canada together contained over three-fourths of tho Empire’s overseas white population, the impossibility of the proposal would be appreciated by all sensible people.