EXTRACTS FROM OTHER ELECTION LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25970, 25 November 1949, Page 9

EXTRACTS FROM OTHER ELECTION LETTERS

“Well Satisfied" agrees with “Fendalton Elector’s” remarks about Mr J. H. Gilmour, Independent Liberal candidate for Fendalton. “Well Satisfied” writes: “He is an outstanding man of courage and real ability, whose sound ideas are loudly applauded by his audiences.”

“Remember to Keep Holy, etc.” complains of labour Party rallies being held on Sundays and writes: “Let them vote Labour if they must, but at least they can refrain from their hysterical outbursts on God’s Day.”

“Not So Dull” cannot understand why the singing of “Lead, Kindly Light" at an election meeting should inspire horror. “It just springs spontaneously from the hearts of those who wish to support the man who desires to do good for the majority of mankind and not be the tool of the selfish few,” writes “Not So Dull.”

“Spotlight” contends that Mr Holland and his party opposed social security. The correspondent quotes Mr Holland’s remarks on “applied lunacy” and contends that the Labour Government has made a “huge success of social security." He states that Mr Bodkin said that if the National Party became the Government it would abolish social security.