General Election

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31222, 21 November 1966, Page 12

General Election

I Sir, —We should retain Mr Pickering as M.P. for Rangiora. He seems to have the good of the ordinary working man at heart. Not so Labour. I have written to the Rangiora Labour Representation Committee on six occasions, 3010/64, 6/11/64, 13/11/64. 29/11/64, 18/12/64 and 2/5/1965, but I have received no reply or acknowledgement to any of these letters. I think it is important to have a reliable man to represent us for Rangiora.—Yours, etc., DAVID. November 19, 1966.

I Sir,—The Prime Minister, in an address in the north, has slated Social Credit, not with constructive arguments but with the usual low-punch-ing tactics prevalent among our professional political careerists. He is reported as saying that Social Crediters do not know what they are talking about, that they are disorganised, and that Social Credit promises “something for nothing.” I would like to ask him two questions. If Social Credit is such folly why are two full-time political organisers needed in Hobson? And why has the Government given the “forgotten North” such unprecedented attention in the last three years? Mr Holyoake’s smear campaign may well work the other way. Intelligent people prefer intelligent and honest representatives.—Yours, etc., SOCIAL CREDITED. November 18, 1966.