ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15081, 2 December 1919, Page 6

ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

MR. LYSNAR. AT WAIROA. i QUESTION OF PROFITEERING. OLD RAGES WORTH AfORR THAN , THE GOLDEN FLEECE. (Per Prf^s A^'irinii'on ) WAIROA, this day. ; ' Mr W. D. Lvsnar f. r nve a second address in Wairoa district Inst night *afc | Frnsertown. Mr J. W ; thell was appointed chapman. Abo'utj forty people I were present. He opened up new , ground in regard to profiteer) nig. He. fsa.icl .that New Zealand manufacturers, i purchased wool from the Government at j [cost, but the Government failed to say that, when turned into material, certain prices should be charged for it. The mamufacturer got what he liked to ask. Not only was this the case, but the material was being sent out of the Dominion so that the people of New Zealand, piir^hnsiuar' material,' pa ; d £10 for a. suit. Old rags were, quoted at 2s 7d per p° uni d- whilst wool only reaches <m averaae of Is 2^d. Old raars were more valuable than the g-.olden fleece. He made a stfl»'iemen.t- that commodities, meat, products, wool, or leather, can be reduced bv half of whs>& we have to pay to-da-V. and the producer could receive double the present price, and still leave considerable profit to itire maTHxfaci f .urer. The Government put sixteen millions annually in.to> the pockets of profiteers. Mr Lvsnar supported the Waikaremoana hydro-electricity scheme and the Waikokonu railw.iv. rte sa.^d. he wou'd do his best- io see both become accomp!n.«hed facts. At, oues'fnn time ho sa.M that th-3 woollen goods manufacturers were fast becominc! a big monopoly. A- vote of thanks, moved by Mr V. E. Winter, and seconded by Mr M. P. Chapman, was carried unanimously. Mr Lysnar addresses the freezing •vorks hands to-day. He !?oes to Nuhaka tliis afternoon, and Liter gives an ad*ress at Mo'"ere and Wharerata. Hp ioumeyß, to Gisborne to-morrow.