Caring society goal for Values Party

Press, 6 November 1981, Page 19

Caring society goal for Values Party

PA Wellington A caring, co-operating society that would ensure the long-term well-being of New Zealand has been advocated by the Values Party in its opening 15-minute campaign broadcast on television. The party’s co-leader, Mr Jori Manson, said Values offered no short-term promises to voters but hope, “Not just for our generation but for our children as well.” Values sought a society where co-operation was more important than competition, he said. “The Values Party is about

having more,” Nelson candidate, Mr Michael Ward, told viewers. “More time to talk to your children, more time for’husbands and wives to make love . . Children had to learn to express their feelings and to make decisions, said the East Cape candidate, Mr Dudley Kelly. He said schools were “galloping along mainly academic lines” with insufficient emphasis on development of the whole personality. The ■ Yaldhurst candidate, Dr Alan Wilkinson, said the National Party’s “think big” policy put New Zealand at the mercy of huge multi-

nationals who cared only for profits. Describing the policy as a mug’s game, he said there was no “fast track” to a secure future for New Zealand. Mr Ward said that economic growth would not solve unemployment. Technological advances meant that jobs were simply disappearing and less people were now required to perform the essential functions in society. The Values solution to unemployment lay in job-shar-ing, co-operatives, glide time, and shorter working weeks.