Labour’s benefits outlined

Press, 16 November 1981, Page 6

Labour’s benefits outlined

The Labour Party offered guaranteed employment to young people, easier home finance, lower taxes and bal- • ariced growth, said the Labour candidate for Rangiora (Mr C. G. Hayward). Mr Hayward wondered why the local member Vdf Parliament (Mr D. F. Quigley) had riot attended a joint public meeting for candi.-. dates held in Oxford, re-'

ceritly. 7/ .. ■' “There were one or two questions I wanted to ask him,” .Mr 'Hayward told a sympathetic audience of. 60 in 'Kaiapoi earlier this week. IMr Hayward said that people throughout the electorate were living in beach cairips, carayans or 'motels and were sharing houses be- . cause • they could not find ■ rental - housing . or . housing finance.

“And yet the Minister for Housing (Mr Quigley)has

said there is not a housing shortage. “I throw out the challenge ■to the Minister to spend one day with me in the electorate to meet all those people who approach me for help in finding housing,” said Mr Hayward... , Sound regional development programmes would B stimulate the economy and ’ie ? jobs throughout ■ • Labour realised that farm- ■- ing was. “the -backbone -of New: Zealand,’’., arid uriljke National,’ ? “the 'farmer’s former - friend,” ?. Labour would .help the farming sec- . tof; ' ■ - By investing $2OO million iri agriculture, Labour would create-50,000 jobs at far less ■cost than ' $1.3 million for' each, of the jobs provided by the /Government’s “Think Big” policy, said Mr Hayward, ..•