General Election

Press, 16 November 1981, Page 20

General Election

Sir,—At a recent political meeting I was pleasantly surprised when the National candidate for Papanui, Mr Brian Keeley, advised the audience that all candidates representing all parties should be caring people. It was indeed a refreshing statement from the normal "knocking” style of statement that candidates and members of Parliament usually give. As I am not a National supporter I must admit my first thoughts were that Mr Keeley was pandering to the large crowd, and to a certain extent to Mr Gair, the Minister of Health, who was also present. However, as Mr Keeley’s address continued I learnt he is the same Mr Keeley who founded the H.O.P.E.' group for children suffering with leukaemia and cancer. We are indeed fortunate to have a caring candidate. It was clear that Mr Keeley was not using this as an election platform but obviously cares a lot about people. — Yours, etc., (Mrs) E. ANDERSON. November 11, 1981.

Sir,—Our political parties try to convince us that they can cope with the world-wide problems of inflation, unemployment, taxation, redundancy, fuels, education, etc., but they cannot tell us how to cope with our toughest problem - the F.O.L. Even the great Norman Kirk, only a few months in office, said he had had a gutsful of them. Domin-

ated by people like Andersen, Douglas, Kelly, Thorpe, Butterworth, the F.O.L. policy is now extreme Left, bitter, implacable and extremely divisive. Their influence in the key industries of transport, meat, boilermakers, has caused us extreme inconvenience and expense. The Rixen dispute, youth wage rates and trade with Chile are current examples of F.O.L. pig-headedness. The Government of Chile, like that of South Africa, is opposed because it is anti-Communist.— Yours, etc..

E. MULCOCK. November 12. 1981