Electors Asked To “Break Habit”

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31343, 13 April 1967, Page 14

Electors Asked To “Break Habit”

New Zealanders were often accused of having too many bad habits but by far the worst was their voting for National and Labour Party governments, said the Social Credit candidate in the Fendalton by-election (Mr J. R. Forster) last evening. He asked a large audience to break away from this habit and to vote according to their consciences. “By voting Social Credit, you will be on the way towards achieving economic sanity and security.” Mr Forster said that the Social Credit Political League did have an alternative policy for coping with the timepayment, debt-ridden society in which New Zealand found itself today. The country had been governed for the last 30 years by National or Labour. Promises had been made and many had not been kept. The country had been faced with a series of “stop-go” economic policies.

“Today Mr Marshall says New Zealand has become a little fat and that it should slim down a bit The reason for the removal of food subsidies he gave as a fall in wool prices,” said Mr Forster. “Yet a Fendalton remit carried by the National Party conference in 1964 called for the abolition of the subsidy on bread. So as far back as 1964 they were looking to their removal and perhaps wool provided them with a good excuse.” Mr Forster dealt briefly with Social Credit policy. He said that the overflowing audience had come to hear, not him, but Mr Cracknell.