HUSTINGS GLEANINGS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 49, 13 November 1946, Page 5

HUSTINGS GLEANINGS

ELECTION CAMPAIGN SHOTS

CANDIDATE CLIPPINGS

As a chosen candidate to broadcast the National platform, Mr W. Sullivan, M.P., spoke over the air at Timaru last Monday evening, and was relayed through station 2YA Wellington.

“It is no use Mr Holland talking of stable income for the farmer and then, in the next breath, offering them an unstable price for their farm products. No farmer can have a stable income* under a system of maximum and minimum prices.”— (R. Boord, Labour, Bay of Plenty).

“Mr Holland, the leader of the National Party, is a New Zealander with unbounded faith in the future of this country. The National Party, in bffice, visualises pakeha and Maori working together with a common purpose, moving forward as one people in pursuit of a common destiny.”—(F. W. Doidge, -National, Tauranga). • When the housing shortage was being discussed, people did not want to forget that most of it arose from the'huge amount of timber that had been used during the war on military installations. Another contributing factor was the unwillingness of some of the mill owners to produce to capacity because they did not want to pay their taxes.—(H. E. Labour, Hawke’s Bay).

Labour today was making 'excuses for every shortage. They were also maintaining the rationing of sugar and of tea, all of which, he contended, was quite needless. Tyre control had been lifted in Australia nine months ago and word from the United States declared that in 1947 there was going to be a surplus of world rubber.—(W. Sullivan, National, Bay of Plenty).

“If y-ou want an ambassadorship or a job in the Upper House, stand •for the Labour Party, but see that you are not elected.”—(T. C. Webb, National, Rodney).

“A man at a Westport meeting told me he would not vote for me whichever party I stood for. Well, I could not answer that one straight away, but I was reminded of a similar statement made to an English politician. The interjector said: ‘I would not vote for you if you were St. Peter himself.’ The, politician replied: ‘lf I were St. Peter you could not vote for me, because you would not be in my electorate.’—(R. M. Algie, National, Remuera).

The transforrhation the' Labour Government has worked in New Zealand can be simply expressed. When we first came into power our main preoccupation was x to find enough jobs for the workers. Now the worry is to find enough workers for the jobs.—(C. Morgan Williams, Labour, St. Albans)..

“When your allowed Sir Apirana Ngata '.to be displaced, you removed a puriri post and replaced it with a willow post.”—(W. Sullivan, National, Bay of Plenty).

A man who listened to the broadcast in which the leader of the National Party (Mr G. S. Holland) promised that 20 per cent, of the rent paid by State tenants would be credited towards their deposit if they wished to buy their • houses wrote asking Mr Holland: “Were my ears deceiving me?” Mr Holland told, a meeting that the Plan was quite right. The National Party was not proposing to give him anything that he had not already paid himself in capital charges included in his rent. The National Party said that when a tenant had paid off his house it belonged to him. That was where it differed from the Government. Reference to statements by Mr A. J. Price, National Party candidate for Napier, about the two and a half hours’ delivery of Mr Nash’s “baby” the Budget, was made by the Minister of Finance himself in Napier. He said that contrary to Mr Price’s statement the delivery of the Budget was a pleasure and not an ordeal. “It was like the Dionne quintuplets—there were really five babies and every one of them we are proud to owh,” he said.