What The Candidates Are Saying

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28434, 14 November 1957, Page 7

What The Candidates Are Saying

Ages < -They talk about the average age of the first three men in the | Government being 48. Well, three ■ nien are not the Government. In i the 38 National members standing < for Parliament again there are 1 nine drawing universal superan- i puation. In our 35 members there < are six."—Mr P. G. Connolly iLa- 1 hour. Dunedin Central), speaking i in St. Martins. 1 Money and Goods J ••In 1949 Miss Howard was saying that it did not matter what ( costs were as long as there was € enough money to buy the goods, c Today I see she says just the op- 1 posite.” —Mr C. C. A. McLachlan 1 (Rational. Christchurch Central), t s Pound Notes r “Mr Holyoake seems to think that all money comes from production. When you plant potatoes you don't dig pound notes ( with the tubers, nor does the farmer find pound notes pinned to his lambs.” —Miss M. H. M. King (Social Credit, Dunedin Central). Security “Socialism is based on security, but you can have security in gaol. I don't like living in gaol, and I don't think you do.”—The Slinister of Industries and Com- t merce (Mr E. H. Halstead). v “Imported” “The Labour philosophy is not S indigenous to New Zealand. It ? is an imported doctrine which 1 does not readily flourish in the mind of a New Zealander.”— Mr ‘ G. Smith ‘National, Ponsonbv). F e Voters ••Bear in mind that bad govern- o ments are elected by good people n who fail to vote.”—Mr A. J. F Faulkner <Labour. Roskill). s

Omission ? Election dodgers being put in - post boxes by the National Party ’ m er iVn imilar to those distributed in 1949 except for the omission , or one word—"capable”—from 1 the party’s description of its Gov- • ernment, said Mr M. A. Connelly - 'Labour. Riccarton). "The reason ■ tor the omission is obviously the • way the country is being run,’ he added. Social Security ”It is not exactly just. Nor could any scheme we could have evolved be exactly just because or the dual system of taxation we have had.” said the Minister of Housing (Mr J. Rae) of the National Party’s policy of chargingsocial security tax on income derived this year by self-emploved persons.