What the candidates are saying . . .

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33075, 16 November 1972, Page 5

What the candidates are saying . . .

Ways out “In 1969 how many of you voted Labour to keep National out? How many voted National to keep Labour out? in 1972 why not vote Social Credit and keep them both out?” — Mr J. Woouhall (Social Credit, Otago Central). Help “Save Manapouri was the catch cry two years ago. It should now be save New Zealand.”—Mr R. K. Lee (Liberal Reform, Clutha). Final choice “I would abolish taxation on income, petrol, estates and particularly beer.”—Mr G. V. Mullenger, aged 81 (National Independent, Tamaki). Personal talk

“It has been said to me that I have no right to stand because I am what is considered to be a public figure. But I have my feelings and my attitudes, my views and my desire to participate in what I consider an extremely important period of New Zealand life.”—Mr J. P. C. Blumsky (National, Lyttelton). Ova-kill “It’s not the hen that cackles most that lays the bonniest egg.” — Mr J. G. Chewings (National, Invercargill). Peace offer “We don’t believe that the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation board should be made up of political warlords or ex-warlords. We don’t believe that there should be the interference that there is between the Minister and the

day-to-day administration of the corporation.”—Mr W. W. Freer (Labour, Mount Albert). Mother’s place “Don’t fall overboard in love with equal pay. Think of the fish hooks, too. We could get to the situation that employment is so attractive to women that their responsibilities to home and family might take second place. No child care centre replaces the care and attention of a mother.”—Air Commodore T. F. Gill (National, East Coast Bays). Mother’s pay “The exclusion of mothers who stay at home to bring up their families from the Accident Compensation Act is denying equality and justice to these womenfolk who, in my opinion, are doing the most important job in the community—caring for and moulding the characters of the citizens of tomorrow."— Mrs E. E. McMillan (labour, Dunedin North). Wonderland “The electors of Invercargill have been given a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee — or, in other words, swapping one National member for another.” —Mr W. F. Manson (Independent Democratic Labour, Invercargill). Cake and bread “I frequently hear the complaint that people who live in State houses or receive benefits, own television sets, drink beer or spend money at housie or the T.A.B. There seems to be the curiously puritanical notion in New Zealand that the lives of the poor should be desolate as well.”—Dr B.

F. M. Edwards (Labour, Miramar). Seek and . . . “Very few New Zealanders seriously seeking work in this country fail to get it.”—Sir Roy Jack (National, Rangitikei). Chickens and eggs “Bikes do not make bikies. Parents with so many commitments that they cannot devote the time to their children that they should, hardpressed educationalists and an uncaring social system do.”—The leader of the Social Credit Political League (Mr B. Beetham). Choosing partners “For me, and for the Labour Party, there is really only one election choice—the creation of a climate to establish happj’ families. New Zealand has suffered because of the National Government’s policy of choosing wealth for the few at the expense of quality of life.”—Mrs M. McG. Clark (Labour, Papanui).