ELECTION POINTS

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4771, 12 November 1935, Page 8

ELECTION POINTS

At his Empire Theatre meeting the Hon. S.v G. Smith said he had heard a complaint during the day that the New Plymouth trams were being used for political advertising purposes, and that one candidate was billed on the tram boards. The Minister said he had a look at the advertisement that was complained of and noticed that the board read: "Vote Democrat." He also noticed the answer to that on another board on the other end of the tram, which read: "No, No, Nanette." * * * * "They are asking you to sack the doctor who has seen you through and call in a quack or an Indian herbalist," said Mr. W. J. Poison at Motunui. "Personally I don't think there is much difference between the Labour quack and the Democrat Indian herbalist," he continued, adding that the Democrat Party had stated its intention of stripping the farmer of some of the privileges which had kept him going. $ # # * Mr. W. M. C. Denham (Labour, Invercargill) : Give back to the peo- ' pie the power which has been stripped from them by the city financiers. That was the sum total of Labour's monetary policy in New Zealand, and as Professor Soddy had stated, "the people must decide who is to rule— Parliament or the banks." There could not be two heads of the State.

"We may ruin some, but it won't be the working class."—Mr. J. W. Munro, Labour candidate for Dunedin North, speaking at North-East Valley. sjt jfc jjt # "The trend toward economic nationalism," said Mr. Appleton, Independent candidate for Otaki, "will not be reversed overnight, and it is idle for us to nurse the hope of any immediate renaissance of world trade. It is just as well, therefore, for us to appreciate the fact that we have to depend on our own resources, and the best way in which to do that is to build up our local industries and to go in for more diversified production. The need for New Zealand is to increase the population so that we can absorb more of our own primary products within the Dominion." *•* * * In the course of his address at Opoho Mr. A. S. Falconer, the National Government candidate for the Dunedin North seat, paid a tribute to the mental calibre of at least some of the Labour Party. He was giving a resume of the events that led to the formation of the National Government, and expressed the opinion that it was a pity the Labour Party had not come in. "Neither the Reform nor the United Party had the brains," he said. "There were brains in the Labour Party as well." ♦ SF V "The first credit transaction we have any record of is mentioned in the Bible," said Dr. D. G. M'Millan (Labour candidate for Dunedin West) in his address in the Leith Street Orange Hall. "It occured when Eve ate the apple. It wasn't so much her actual eating of the apple that was the trouble, but the fact that the devil didn't make her pay for it. Consequently, we have been paying for it on time instalments ever since." "I am a democrat," said Mr. Clyde Carr, M.P., the Labour candidate for the Timaru seat, opening his campaign. "I do not spell the word with a capital letter," he continued, "that is a horse, or a mule, of another colour. Its parentage is doubtful; its future is more than doubtful. It is already far other than its progenitors either intended or expected." * * * * The Democrats, according to Mr. F. C. Evans (Democrat candidate for Christchurch South), will reduce the number of members of Parliament and make the Legislative Council elective. They will also put a stop to time-wasting in Parliament by limiting the Address-in-Reply debate to three or four speeches..

The wise measures by which the Government claims to have balanced the Budget were the deaths of two wealthy farmers and the sale of gold which did not belong to the Government." This was a statement typical of many in criticism of the Government made by Mr. T. H. McCombs (Labour) opening his campaign in the Lyttelton electorate. Mr. McCombs attacked the Government for having, as he alleged, failed to deal with unemployment, and for neglecting education, vocational training and social services. The Labour Party, he said, was pledged to provide sufficient wages, to place education on a sound basis, and to institute social services to secure health and prevent malnutrition. * * * * In the course of his speech at Seacliff, Mr. A. E. Ansell, National Government candidate for Chalmers, compared the position of the Government with an individual in the matter of income and expenditure. "If the individual's income is cut down then he must of necessity cut down his expenditure, repudiate his liabilities, or go into debt. And, after all," he asked, "what is a Government but a collection of individuals, the wage earners and taxpayers of this Dominion?"