“Cinderella Area”

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31221, 19 November 1966, Page 22

“Cinderella Area”

—W. P. Dobier (Social Credit)

A Social Credit government would take immediate steps to boost the development of Buller, which for too long has been the “Cinderella" electorate.

Potentially Buller has far greater natural resources than Northland, but although the beneficial effects of an injection of development finance have been clearly demonstrated there in recent years the Government has been unable to make similar finance available for Buller. Through the implementation of our money reforms

it would be possible to make such finance available. As well, it is our policy to offer very real advantages to the electors by means of our indended redistribution of the present money supply. For farmers, Social Credit would be able to offer real incentives. Trade Agreements Social Credit would request a revision of existing trade agreements to ensure the removal of restrictive clauses hampering the development of alternative overseas markets. Our policy of offering inter-est-free loans to local bodies would effect considerable savings for Buller ratepayers, as would our policy of issuing debt-free money for the financing of national capital works. Social Credit acknowledges that it is a matter of national importance to arrest the decline in the coal industry in Buller, especially as a means of conserving overseas funds. We would encourage greater use of coal in its present form and establish coal-utilisation plants in Buller concerned primarily with the manufacture of nitrogenous manures, of tar, of ammonia, of disinfectants, of metallurgical coke and other bye-products. We would proceed immediately with the development of such other industries in Buller in minerals is well known, bauxite. The wealth of Buller in minerals is well-known. We would develop this for the benefit of Buller. We believe in re-establish-ing incentives to the people of New Zealand and of Buller in particular to increase production with the secure knowledge that this increase will not be taken from them by rising debt, rising taxation and rising costs. The wealth that is physically possible for New Zealanders to attain would be made financially possible by a Social Credit government.