NATIONALISTS AND SOCIAL CREDITERS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27675, 3 June 1955, Page 15

NATIONALISTS AND SOCIAL CREDITERS

Sir, —Mr J. B. Jenkins, National Party chairman, quotes the DeputyPrime Minister of Canada about social credit. Would he explain why this man came to New Zealand? Was it to make ridiculous remarks about social credit? He forgot to tell us that he left behind 362,000 unemployed, who, with wives and children, probably amount to 1,000,000 people, growing thinner, more ragged and more hopeless, while he wasted his time and his country’s money travelling to New Zealand and giving us his childish and unsolicited advice. I cannot imagine a more stupid system of “funny money” than the present one, which loses about one-third of its value very few years; but pensioners, superannuitants and those on fixed incomes don’t think it so funny. Social credit is being accepted by more thinking people every day. and all the carping critics from overseas or of the Jenkins variety will not stop it.—Yours, etc., F. W. STEVENS. June 2, 1955.

Sir, —The beautiful romance between the Tories and the Social Crediters seems to have gone cold. I read, with great amusement, that the chairman of the local Tories describes social credit as an “enemy to all New Zealanders.” Surely the Tories have not forgotten that their good friends, the Social Crediters. put them into power at the last election. Most people regard the Social Crediters and their farago of financial nonsense as a bulwark of the National Party. What has caused the rift?—Yours, etc., CITIZEN. June 2, 1955.