General Election

Press, 7 November 1978, Page 18

General Election

Sir, — Mr Muldoon’s effort to simulate a “miniWatergate” scandal in suggesting that the Labour Party had filched National propaganda frorn its secret archives is to reduce the credibility on which he so smugly rests his claim to a further term of office to the incredulous. — Yours, etc., JAMES J. DUNCAN. November 5, 1978.

Sir, — My heart bleeds profusely for C. G. Marshall (November 3) with his inability to understand Labour’s election manifesto, but I can offer him emphatic consolation on one point; with Labour in power, it would be absolutely impossible to govern our country into a worse mess than at present prevails in all sectors. I concede that Labour is incapable of putting up such a character as .our present Minister of Finance and that this deprives us of the benefits of statesmanlike orations concerning dragging our trading partners'kicking and screaming V negotiations. To offset that drawback. Bill Rowling has taken a crash-course to achieve capability of pushing a bike downhill but he will have to pedal mighty hard to catch the economy which continues to escalate out of sight down an almost vertical decline. — Yours, etc., ARTHUR MAY. November 5, 1978. Sir, — C. G. Marshall (November 3) is at a loss to know what Labour will do if it becomes the Government as apparently Mr Rowling’s opening speech was unconvincing. Many electors will be in agreement as Labour has failed to explain the full impact of the surcharge on overseas exchange. Most of the socialistic capitalists do not even understand the effects of the surcharge but only . see it as a nest egg bringing in up to $4OO million'annually. Our overseas markets are to be placed in jeopardy and efficient foreign manufacturers are to be the benefactors for a sick socialist economy. The rate of inflation will be disastrous and our primary producers are to be used just to provide overseas funds for the purchase of raw materials for uneconomic secondary industries to mop up the unemployed. Mr Rowling has stated that he is an economist and proud of it and the surcharge is the first instalment of the socialist laxative to get New Zealand on the move again. — Yours, etc., L. J. STEVENS. Oamaru. November 3, 1978.