ELECTION GOSSIP

Opunake Times, 25 October 1935, Page 3

ELECTION GOSSIP

NOTES FROM HUSTINGS BIG FIELDS EXPECTED Mr J. Pobertson, the" Labour Party’s candidate for the Masterton seat, has been a patient in hospital for some weeks, but has now recovered sufficiently to ieturn to his home. * * * He knew that to bring the f schange back to its true relationship with sterling was a technical and difficult operation, but it ".as

a course which must ultimately be followed.—T. C. K. Hislop (Horn., Masterton). » * * He was sorry to have to oppose Dir Barnard, for whom he had the highest regard. "1 ooh’t like his politics, as I think they vould nor be in the best interests of the country.”—J. Logan (Nat. Govt., Napier). ♦ * *• Mr Clive Cameron, manger of the North Auckland Farmers’ Co-operative Association at Laikohe, Nat. Govt., candidate for Bav of Islands seat, was farming near-Pio Pio for some years after the war. * *■ * The Government debt vas £280,000,000, if a two per cent reduction had been effected cn the interest paid on that amount the saving would have been £O,000,000 annually.—Pev. E. Cox (Labour, Glut ha). * * * Mrs W. Mackay, the National ! Government candidate for Christchurch South, is a member of the 1 Canterbury Hospital Board. For t wo years she was Dominion j resi dent of the Presbyterian Young 1 Women’s Bible Class movement. ’

The first step by (he labour Government in its work of rehabilitation would be the reform of the present system of currency and credit, which would be based on the real wealth of goods and services.—P. AI. Butler (Labour, AA r ellington Suburbs).

It would be a calamity if Labour was put into power in New Zealand. He felt that there solicitousness for the farmers’ welfare was “mere eyewash,” and talers would have to be taken Horn trade union secretaries.—H. G Dickie (Nat. Govt., Patea).

He would not vote to place Labour on the Treasury benches because he did not consider Hat they had the capacity, and, moreover, he strongly objected to (lie affairs of New Zealand being run not by a Parliament, but 1 y a caucus in the Trades Hall. — \A r . Aplpleton (Ind., Otaki). * * *

After strong criticism of the “detested- sales tax,” Air Veitch said that one plank in his party’s platform was. to abolish it and relieve the heavy drain on taxpayers. By abolishing it the Treasury would in no way be depleted. —AV. A. Yeitch (Dem., Wanganui). * ♦ » Although there were six ;andidates for the AA r ellington Last electorate, the issue before the electors was comparatively simple, declared Air L. AV. Nicolaus, Commonwealth Land .Party -mndidate. Five of t he candidates stood for State control and the taxation of industry, but he stood for personal freedom of action for the Individual and no taxation. * * * Alistakes might have been made but he considered the vastly improved position of the country as disclosed by the last Budget was answer enough to any criticisms of this nature. They bear in mind the stupendous problems which the Government had had to face. —A. E. Jull (Nat. Govt., AA raipawn). , , , The Labour speakers had been gloriously indefinite as to the means that would be adopted to raise tbe necessary money. One proposal had been to raise the rate of exchange still further; another had been to increase taxation of incomes. But the plan most favoured was to create and manufacture” money, and thereby inflate the currency. It was when such a proposal as this was made that the economist with his knowledge of economic history could be of real service to the people by pointing out h f)W inflation always reacted upon the State by injuring all ers and all those people who were depending upon savings, siiperan nuation, and insurance policies for their support in old age.—n. C, Ala zengarb (Nat; Govt., AA elliu gl on East).