What The Candidates Are Saying

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28435, 15 November 1957, Page 16

What The Candidates Are Saying

Election Stakes “Which horse are you going to back on November 30? Will it be Labour’s aged grey horse, by High Bid out of Desperation, trained by Red Herring, ridden by Globe Trotter and owned by the State 9 Or is it going to be the two-year-old Forethought, by Private Enterprise out of Look Ahead, trained by experience, ridden by Kiwi, owned by Common Sense, and backed by everyone who thinks?”—The Minister of Labour (Mr J. K. McAlpine) in Auckland. Run Down "The Government now in change of this country is a dying government. It has been in office for eight ln that time its policy has run away. Prices have run up. Many of its senior men have run out, and the Government has run down. It is on its last legs.—The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Nash.) Imagination “Five months of the year th'b world works for taxation; to pay the tax on the imaginary money they imagine they earn.”—Mr G. R. Lynne (Social Credit, Sydenham.) Plain Smith “Mr Smith’s name is against him.” said Dame Hilda Ross (National, Hamilton), speaking in Riccarton of the Minister of Agriculture (Mr S. W. Smith). “He should call himself BrownSmith or something. It is too simple.” Credit Creation “It is necessary to create credit in order to create work for the people. Labour will do so. In limes of unemployment internal controls can be manipulated.”— Mr P. N. Holloway (Labour, Herctaunga.) Television “I hope television never arrives in this country. I would sooner see children playing tops or marbles or even robbing apple orchards than sitting in front of a television screen all day."—Mr W. P. Macdougall (National. Mornington.) A plus B “I’m not interested in the A plus B theorem. I can’t understand It myself, and I don’t expect anyone else to do so.” —Mr R. W. Johnson (Social Credit, Miramar.)

Houses “The Labour Party will build houses, not apologies. We will build them at a price the people can afford.” —Mr R. Tizard (Labour, Tamaki.) Tax Evaders Tax evaders will need the waists of whitebait to get through the net and dodge their lawful obligations.”—Mr J. J. Maher (National, Otaki), discussing the Government’s P.A.Y.E. proposals., Possibilities “We believe that what is physically possible should be financially possible.”—Mr J. O. Milburn (Social Credit, Mornington.) Maori Women “The Maori Women’s Welfare League will get them on the straight and narrow road.” said Dame Hilda Ross, Minister of Social Security, when speaking at Riccarton of the Maoris. Workers “A worker is one who renders some useful service, either by brain or hand.”—Mr F. J. Kitts (Labour, Wellington Central.)