BRITISH COLUMBIA ELECTION

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28154, 18 December 1956, Page 22

BRITISH COLUMBIA ELECTION

Sir, —Provisional voting figures to hand for the British Columbia Parliamentary election in September, as given in the “Vancouver Sun,” should give great encouragement to New Zealand Social Creditors. The “Socreds,” as they are called, scored 39 seats out of 52, the next highest party. C.C.F., scoring only 10, and the other three parties three, one and none. The gain in seats for Social Credit, compared with their 1953 vote, was a jump from 27 to 39! It was said to be one of the dirtiest elections ever. The dirt thrown probably produced such a revulsion of feeling to this class of campaigning that a landslide of honest voters augmented the Social Credit vote. The defeated parties were compared by the “Vancouver Sun” with the boy who stubbed his toe when running to meet his girl—“too big to cry and 14)0 badly hurt to laugh.”—Yours, etc., December 15. 1956. FLAMBEAU. [The results, we suggest, would be more encouraging to Social Creditors in New Zealand if the Social Credit governments in Canada had power to introduce Social Credit monetary systems. In fact, control over currency and banking remains with the Canadian Federal Government; and Social Credit has never been put into practice in Canada.—Ed., “The Press.”]