HUSTINGS GLEANINGS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 50, 15 November 1946, Page 5

HUSTINGS GLEANINGS

ELECTION CAMPAIGN SHOTS

CANDIDATE CLIPPINGS

This will be remembered as “the great hush-hush election” of 1946. Not only does the Government go to the country with a party without a policy, but it actually seeks to place a ban on the subjects its candidates may discuss. * The application of the guillotine in the case of the Bretton Woods Agreement is a notable example, but the closure seems to have been applied on many other vital issues. The iron curtain of silence has descended on such important matters as air transport, the future of broadcasting and Pacific defence.—(F. W. Doidge, National, Tauranga). The National ,Party says we are trying to shut out British goods, but no country is giving a greater measure of preference to Britain than the Labour Government. Today Britain is being embarrassed by the opportunities for trade we are offering her. We have decided that whatever Britain wants to rebuild her export trade, then we are going to help her with it. We said to Britain less than six weeks ago that, we would not agree to reduce our preference to her and her preference for us unless she requested us to do differently. There is no country in the world giving such preference to Britain.—(W. Nash, Labour, Hutt). *** * > The August school journal had only just arrived. Now the Government was calling tenders for the printing of the journals. A Labour Government was calling on private enterprise. Although there was a shortage of journals, there was plenty of paper for election literature and people had never been without race books. It did not make sense.—(A. M. Laing, National, Waitakere). Tory—they don’t like that name. They are like a piebald pony—all colours. They have had every name under the sun. They say they are not the old gang, but they are all following the feame idea and the same theme. There are still seven of the old gang left, and they would all do the same things again. In fact, Mr Holland says the 40-hour week makes his blood boil.—(R. Macdonald, Labour, Ponsonby). *. ft ft ft .i : • In his own area around Tauranga large areas had been taken for development. Nearly ten years had elapsed since the scheme had been put in hand. The development had been completed but no attempt had been made to honour the pledges given the Maoris when they agreed to participate in the scheme. The owners were reduced to the level of common labourers on their own land. That was never Sir Apirana Ngata’s intention.—(F. Doidge, National, Tauranga). ❖❖* » * “Mr Holland is trying to be Father Christmas just now. He is promissing you everything in the way of induction of taxes. Well, it is easy enough for him to promise it. If he gets in, he will never do anything about it.’-—(F. Jones, Labour, St. Hilda). * * * “It is time New Zealanders arose and realised that they could provide, a better type of Ministry in which the proportion of native-born citizens would be more than one in three. In S. G. Holland, the country has a virile New Zealander who fought for has country in the first world war and is fighting for it today in the cause of democracy. In the ranks of Ms party are the potential Ministers New Zealand needs.— (C. E. Harker, National, Hawke’s Bay).

The National Party says it is going to sell the houses we have already built. Do not fall for that. They want to interfere with the assets of the State and it will be the worst day in the history of New Zealand if they do. You would be dead long before you had paid for the houses.— (W. T. Anderton, Labour, Auckland Central).

We want Ngata back in Parliament, not merely as a great representative of the Maori race; we need him for the good of New Zealand. Ngata is a statesman in the truest sense of the word; a man of culture, with a wide knowledge and understanding of world affairs; a man of splendid judgment. An orator without equal, we have no one quite like him in this country today.—(F. Doidge, National, Tauranga).