ELECTION CAMPAIGN NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1943, Page 4

ELECTION CAMPAIGN NOTES

Women ana Work., A man who said he had worked in the mines arrived late at a meeting held by Mr. T. C. A. Hislop (National, Wellington North) at the Webb Street Methodist Hall last evening, but-he was in time to hear the close of a re : ference to coal. He asked whether the candidate was referring to the miners and had the'reference explained to him. He said he wanted to ask only one question, and that after Mr. Hislop had finished, but he persisted in interrupting. "As you have backed up the women working on the tram tracks, are you in favour of your own wife working alongside those women?' he asked. The scheduled chairman was away with influenza, and Mrs. Hislop was presiding. Her reply was prompt and to the point, and drew prolonged applause. "I'll tell you what I did/ she said. "When we had a scare here, I suppose'about '-wo years ago. I took a shovel and built trenches round the university college with massive women because men would not do it." Soldiers' Land. The case of a soldier .holding ten acres of land in the Hutt Valley over which a Government proclamation had been issued, was quoted by Mr. W. Appleton (National, Wellington Central) at Hataitai last night. He charged the Government with a breach of faith in this and other cases, stating that an underaking had been given that soldiers' land would not be taken from them. "Doing Magnificent Job." "Everybody I met in Washington told me that Pharazyn is doing a magnificent job for this country, and is worth every penny he receives," said the Minister of Finance (Mr. Nash) at Lower Hutt last night in reply to a questioner. Mr. Nash said that LieutColonel Pharazyn was a most able artillery officer, and that he would do anything to get to the Mindle East. He received 7000 dollars a year, which was 1000 dollars a year less than his predecessor in the same job, and out of it he had to pay entertainment expenses. . \

New Experience. "People who grumble about paying income tax today did not know what an income tax form was in 1935," said the Minister of Finance (Mr. Nash) at Lower Hutt last night. "There's some ■grumbling at times about'paying tax on overtime. Some: people don't think they ought to pay? tax on overtime, but before 1935 it was all short time with no overtime at all." Before 1935, said Mr. Nash, half the people did not know where they could get money to buy anything. "There's a bigger surplus for everybody now after all taxation has been paid than there has ever been before." U.S. and Britain. "You are treacherous to your country and treacherous to the world if you do anything that will poison the relations between the English-speak-ing peoples and the British Commonwealth and the United States of ■■America," declared the Minister of 'Finance (Mr. Nash); at Lower Hutt last night; 'Talk which belittled the vUnited States and ;which harmed the relations between the ..United States and ,the British Commonwealth was the worst kind of treachery, he saidi 'IBoor Cow." ,-■- ■;

' "If my plan had-been adopted that would not have been permitted," said Mr. E. C. Russell, Independent, Wellington East, when referring last night to a statement on,leather in the Audi-tor-General's report. "The big firms get away with it all the time," he said, "but some poor 'cow' of a grocer gets ' r fined.. £10 for charging £d a pound " more for his butter, and this after delivering it."

Not Fairly Treated.

..-• "If these fellows who have just come "back are riot getting a fair deal, God help them when the election is over and the party machinery resumes its normal running again."—Mr. C. G. Scrimgeour, when speaking last evening on the treatment accorded certain men who have just returned from the • war. Shakespeare Summed It- Up. A reference to Shakespeare was made by Mr. A. H. Carman (Independent, Wellington North) when speak--1 ing about the party system last night. He said that many people were impatient of the fight for power, and their attitude was well expressed by Mer-? cutio in "Romeo and Juliet," where, exasperated by the feud between the houses of Montague and Capulet, as he ■lay dying, he cried: "A plague on both your houses." Ancient feuds and old issues must bo forgotten if we were to shape a new order that represented anything worth while, said Mr. Carman. "Points System." ''Sugar and tea are the only two liries rationed. But they are plentiful and easy ■to ration. Why don't they do the same with eggs and honey?'? asked Mr. X C. Russell, Independent; Wellington East, at a meeting last night. "Because they haven't thej brains and ability to do it. There is a points system in England. We have aj points system here, too —our own. The customer points out what she wants, and we 'points' out she can't have it." j