PRE-ELECTION PROMISES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22510, 19 September 1938, Page 14

PRE-ELECTION PROMISES

TO THR EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —In Friday’s paper ’ “Worker” buys a cauliflower wrapped in a copy of the “Standard,” evidently the first he has seen, and proceeds to enumerate the promises that Labour has failed to keep. . , . ■ . ,■ If this so-called “Worker’ read the “Standard” more often, he might be better informed, and know that the 12 major planks of tAe party’s 1935 platform have become law. I might remind him that perhaps he has Mr Savage to thank that he is able to buy a cauliflower wrapped in a “Standard.” Many were unable to buy bread in 1931-35.—Yours, etc.. • STEVE JONSON. Gteymouth, September 15, 1938.

TO TUB KDITOE OT Tfl FMXS3. Sir.—Several election forecasts have appeared in the newspapers lately. In ‘‘The Press” of Wednesday one correspondent, over the pseudonym “Humbug Hater,” writes: “His Worship has a better chance of shooting mosquitoes with a revolver- or of catching elephants with fly-papers than he has of outsing Mr S. G, Holland from Christchurch North.” In “The Press” to-day Mr K. M. Algie suggests that nine out of 10 seats in the Auckland province will be won by the National Party, while Mr T. O. Maddison, Tory candidate for Buller, “commented on the good reception which Mr 'K. J. Holyoakc (Motueka) and E. B. E. Taylor (Westland) were receiving, and that his party was assured of victory in these districts.” The three forecasts make a total Of 13 Tory candidates to be returned. I can imagine that this wish is father to the thought. These forecasts are out of plumb entirely and these prophets will find that when the election is over there will be only enough members of the misnamed National Party returned to enable them to play a fivehanded game of euchre, call on the, ace, and that it would be easier ,to obtain a ladder to. paint lOU on the moon than it will be for the Tories ever again to reach the Treasury benches in New Zealand. The word “National” as attached to the present Tory party" is a distinct contradiction in terms. —Yours, etc.,

J. HILL. Micks Creek, September 15, 1938.