LABOUR PARTY POLICY

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26493, 7 August 1951, Page 6

LABOUR PARTY POLICY

10 POINTS OUTLINED MISS HOWARD SPEAKS AT AUCKLAND (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. August 6. I A glimpse of the Labour Party’s i policy .for the 1951 General Election campaign was given by Miss M. 0. Howard, member of parliament for Sydenham. When she spoke in the Wese?'- ? c " 001 to-night. The attendance, which gave the speaker an enthusiastic hearing, was estimated to De about 250. Thg main part of Miss Howard’s address dealt with the emergency regulations and the rise in the eost of livipg since the last •e eetion. "I am not here to-night to give you our policy, because Mr Nash will do that on the fourteenth of the month," said Migs Howard. “It is only right that that should be done by the leader of the party. However, there are some things I can tell you." Among points stated by Miss Howard were:

"We promise tax concessions. Mr Nash will tell you which concessions. “We will adjust social security benefits and pensions to give a decent living standard to those who have to depend on them. “We will provide special dental, pp, tical, and ambulance benefits as soon 33 they can be organised. We will institute a 40-hour week for nurses, with provision for overtime pay, “We Will give priority In building materials to homes, schools, and hospitals, and we win not allow luxury building as long as the people need houses, “We will reinstate import controls of goods that caji be manufactured econo.!P.lcallX, ’ n New Zealand, We will restore subsidies for community centres.

"We will maintain the eivil air service as a State-owned corporation. "We will amend the Public Safety Conservation Act to provide for Parliament to be called together within 10 days of the declaration of a state of emergency. "There will be provision for an application for a general wage order to be considered every six months." A vote of thanks to Mr Nash and the Labour Party and of confidence in them was carried with prolonged ap-