THE ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1935, Page 2

THE ELECTIONS

POLITICAL POINTS

“The women have got to balance the budget in the borne, and I will oalunee the Budget with any man in the House when 1 get there,” said Mis tCnox dinner in the Methodist Hall, Wellington.

“How would you get over the question of the vote-splitting that is worrying the electors of Wellington North?-”. Mrs Knox Gilmer was asked at her meeting. “If 1 was in your place,” •she* replied amid applause, “I would vote for the Independent and place', her’, at 1 the top of the poll.”

Mr M-i^engarb said that during the process of inflation there was always a constant struggle by the workers to obtain increases of pay in order to meet the rising cost of living, and when there was a halt in the issue of further paper money, credit was contracted and workers were the first t° suffer through leprivation of employment or reductions in pay.

In politics, as in other things, one country should learn from the experience of others. New Zealand has never had experience of a Labour Government, but it'has had ample opportunities of studying Labour Governments at work elsewhere:—iri Australia and in the United Kingdom. With these experiences before, them , the/electors, of this: Dominion should consider very seriously the risks they are likely to run by entrusting their national ..affairs to a party so lavish in itslproiWises as the • Labour Party has been in tlje present election canipfiign. Thdy should study the financial resources of the country, remember its small population of a million and a half people, and ask themselves whether these promises; are capable of fulfilment ; • whether, even, it would be safe to attempt their fulfilment.—Wellington Dominion.

“So long as inflation is carped out with proper brakes on it, it (will have no deleterious effect oil the currency of the country,” claimed Mr;VW. Mitnro, Labour candidate. \

The Government candidate for Hutt praised the leaders of the Nationalist Party,, and said they would never make a step unless they were satisfied it was on sound ground. One reason why they should he supported was not because they had never made a mistake, but because they had risked their own popularity for the country’s good. If they were big enough to do that they were big enough to do that they were big enough to lead the way t« prosperity.

“T think there are a lot of subjects in domestic politics that women can bring a lot of knowledge and advice said Mrs Knox Gilmer, Independent candidate for Wellington North. “They can help on such matters as uneipplovipent problems, standard of living, and the like. And I would riot take a second place to some, or even all, of the members of Parliament, on international questions.”

Not a country in the world had been successfully governed by Labour, declared the speaker, who said the people should follow the lead of the electors at Home. It would be a disastrous thing for the country if a change of Government were made, for although New /'"•a'and was on the up-gr de, it was not yef, out of the wood, and the present policy should he carried out to a successful conclusion. The ronegrtbiting nf the meat agreement should he left to those who did the wrrk last and the sure thing ap. pied to the loan conversions—Government. Hutt candidate.