POINTS FROM ELECTION LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26514, 31 August 1951, Page 5

POINTS FROM ELECTION LETTERS

“E.G.W.”: “I cannot feel any interest regarding election promises, as they are all lined up with conditions abroad, over which we have no control. Broken promises are about even; they have been governed by the same conditions, and they are one and all bound up with that dire threat, Communism. It glares at us from all walks of life, and the soothing propaganda that ‘there are so few in New Zealand,’ proves the strength and danger of those few, and their diabolical cleverness ”

"Mother of Six”: “In reply to ‘National’ about ration books during the sugar shortage recently, owing to the strike, for the month of July I received 21b of sugar for the whole month from my grocer while National friends (two in a family) have a 701 b bag in storage. How different it would have been had I presented eight ration books and received the fair share for my family.” “All For and Not Against”: “I was very pleased to hear that the price of Aspros had been reduced 2d and sincerely hope the Government will be generous enough to cut down the price of beer and all other liquors to enable the workers to celebrate the Labour victory on Saturday.” “Social Sense”: "If the National Party believes the individual always knows better than the State how to use his money, why has it retained woo? profits and why does it intend returning them only over a period of five years?”

“Glass House”: “Like drowning men clutching at straws, Messrs Nash, McLagan, etc., grasp with both hands at the derelict Wahine in a last, futile effort to save themselves from going under. To try to make nolitical capital on this subject is nothing more nor less than abject childishness." “British Born”: “Yes, I voted for Michael Savage, but then he was a man of action and he never sat on the fence. On Saturday I am voting for another stronger man, Sidney Holland, because now I have a wife and family that might need protection.” "C.H.”: “The Labour Party did not reduce the cost of living after the war to when Mr Holland took over, so how is it going to do it now, with rising costs abroad. Mr Holland should be bold enough to introduce a 44-hour week. The housing shortage especially needs a. longer working week.” “Sidney Fan”: "Labour mis-govern-ment, defence, old people and young house-seekers are fine subjects for high-sounding phrases— and who needs reasoning when emotion may do the trick. Not Mr Holland.”

“Freedom": “I wonder if the people of this country realise how serious and vital is this election. Communism is on the march and if we wish to keep it away from our door may we be able to say, as a woman, whom I did not know, remarked to me the mornin;, after the last election: ‘Thank God we are free.’”

“Against Socialism for Safety”: “Listening to Mr A. H. Nordmeyers election speech last evening, I was amused at his frenzied attack on the Holland Government’s policy up to date—what it had not done, etc: but ii seems Mr Holland miscalculated the time it was going to take him to clean up the mess the previous government left, and no doubt it will take all of 13 years hence to straighten things out."

“Labour Victim": “So. as in 1946 when the Labour Party bought itself into power with the child benefit, the same tactics are being used again. An increase of 2s 6d a week and £lO each for students’ costumes have been promised. Clearly these are, and always will be. the responsibility of parents, and wages should be the basis for adjustments. Whv should those who have only one child help to provide for larger families? Spare us from Mr Nash’s taxation and preserve the Reserve Bank.”