ELECTION GOSSIP

Opunake Times, 22 October 1935, Page 3

ELECTION GOSSIP

NOTES FROM HUSTINGS BIG FIELDS EXPECTED In 30 years we have not had a Minister for Education whc ought to have been Minister for Education.—O. Duff (Ind., Huruuui). * * * Labour was something more than a party. It was a humanitarian movement with the interests of the people definitely at heart. —J. B. Cotterill (Lab., Wanganui). * ♦ * Some people have said that Parliament was too large, but this was heresy of the first order. The size of Parliament was a great safeguard for the people and a protection.—W. G. Simpson (Lab., Patea). * • • J He suggested the completion of the East Coast railway as a work worthy of further examination. Private enterprise was willing to take the railway over.

“Surely what is good for private enterprise,” said Mr Monk, “is good for the Government.”—G. • A Monk (Nat. Govt., Otaki). * * * The abolition of the private ownership of land and the production of all revenue from laud rent were given as the Ynain planks of the election platform of the Commonwealth Laud Party, which opened its campaign with an address by Mr E. W. Nicholaus, the party’s candidate for Wellington East.

Labour intended to take over the Reserve Bank after paying the shareholders the .market value of their shares. Various accounts for honey, cheese, etc., would then be opened in the Bank, and the difference between the two prices made up from these.—D. Barnes (Lab., Waitaki). • • *

Mr W. Appleton (Ind., Otaki), stated that at least 29 Independents would be standing in various parts of New Zealand and he claimed that the public would be so impressed with the calibre of those offering their services that a sufficient number would be returned to make an effective foice in the new House.

When an elector asked Mr W. J. Gaudin, Independent t mdidate for Wellington East, if he could tell how much the visit of Mr Forbes and MrTToates to Eifg land had cost the country, the candidate replied: “It was j roper that New Zealand should be represented at the jubilee of the King, and Mr Coates for his part did very good work.”

A business man will borrow in depressed times to tide him c/\er his depression, and this is Fie purpose for which Democracy pro posed raising their loan, namely to tide our people over the depression we are suffering from and to ease their burden from taxation, as well as to provide work for our ■ unemployed and health for our workers.—Dr. Adams (Dem., Patea).

“There is another feeling grow ing, to which I am opposed, that we should get rid of politicians and substitute government by experts. But that would mean government by men who were not expert in politics. Economists, bankers, and others, may be expert in their own subjects, but they do not know how to govern.’ —O. Duff (Ind., Hurunui).

The Labour policy entailed (1) State control of currency and credit. This did not mean that the Party expected its members to run the bank, but tKaTbroad general principles should be laid down for the guidance of the bank managers; (2) organisation of production to ensure maximum efficiency; (3) regulation of external trade. —D. Barnes (Lab. Waitaki).