General Election

Press, 17 January 1979, Page 14

General Election

Sir, — Presumably acting on the dictum that attack is the best method of defence, a new pro-National Party 1e 11 e r-writing campaign, spearheaded by Mr Jake Kitching of Picton, is subjecting readers of correspondence columns to a deluge of propaganda. Doubtless the hope of Mr Kitching and his cohorts is that a sufficiently thick smokescreen will prevent the average New Zealanders from viewing the wreckage of a national economy manipulated by Mr Muldoon, but this belief belittles the intelligence of the Kiwi citizen. Com-, parisons between New Zealand and other countries are irrelevant, as conditions and economies overseas are different from our own. The hard fact remains that on the basis of votes cast in the November General Election, Mr Muldoon’s Government is a minority affair and therefore will rightly be subject to criticism from the not-so-silent majority which supported the New Zealand Labour Party. — Yours, etc., R. L. PLUCK. January 15, 1979.