THE WALLACE ELECTORATE.

Southland Times, Issue 20633, 3 November 1928, Page 3

THE WALLACE ELECTORATE.

To the Editor. Sir, —In your issue of to-day appears a letter over the signature of “Anticipation” couched in language derogatory to Mr W. E. Taylor, United Party candidate for Wallace. Surely, Sir, your correspondent does not think he is going to influence electors of this important constitutency in favour of Mr Hamilton by using unfair tactics, such as wholesale misrepresentation of facts. I am not an elector of Wallace but I have attended several of Mr Taylor’s meetings and can deny the statements made by “Anticipation,” that Mr Taylor said at Ohai or anywhere else that he would go over to Holland if standard rates of wages weren’t paid to unemployed. What Mr Taylor did say was that the unemployed should be paid standard rate of wages, but that they should be employed in the country (and not in the town) on such work as building roads and bridges into State lands that should be opened up for settlement, draining swamps etc. works that would be reproductive, which in the end would pay everybody much better than the present rates paid on unproductive works in the towns and that he would walk into the lobby with Mr Holland in support of such a measure if it came before the House and in so doing, Sir, I am quite sure he will have the support of all right thinking people from end to end of New Zealand. “Anticipation” refers to Mr Taylor as an exponent of the whisky still. Well again, personally I think, (although a Prohibitionist myself) Mr Taylor’s suggestion is well worthy of consideration. The whisky consumed in New Zealand is made with stills only in another country and millions of pounds annually is being sent out of the country to purchase it and as Mr Taylor says if we are going to have whisky, then why not keep the money in the country and have the whiskv made here. From the tone of “Anticipation’s” letter, Sir, I think he is chagrined at the wonderful success Mr Taylor is meeting with in Wallace. Possibly he sees the writing on the wall but such unfair tactis as adopted by him will not help Mr Hamilton and will be resented by right thinking Reformers and Liberals alike and he can take my assurance that so far as Wallace is concerned, she has already decided to give Mr Taylor an opportunity to make use of that wonderful ability which he has demonstrated to the electors on the public platform throughout the electorate.—l am, etc., PRO BONO PUBLICO. Otautau, November 1, 1928.