CAMPAIGN SHOTS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1931, Page 6

CAMPAIGN SHOTS

WHAT THE CANDIDATES ARE . SAYING. "’Government in Business, “The Post Office is an outstanding example of the success of Government in business. It gives the best and cheapest service in the woild.” Mr E E. Vaite, Independent Keiorm candidate for Rotorua. Effect of Coalition. “The Coalition understanding put aii end to a period of grave indecision that had beset the country for twelve months. This, and the- Home elections, has had a wonderful reassuring eitect on business already.”—Mr 1. D. Burnett, Coalition candidate for Teniuka.

Lack of Vision. Urging the necessity for the develop incut of new staple ' industries iu-Aew Zealand at iris meeting at Beckenham the other evening, Mr H. T. Armstrong complained of a lack of vision on the part of the Government. He said that if New Zealand was to be simply a sheep run or a cow yard it could" never carry a large population. A Nati n of Navvies. “If we keep going as we are going we will be in danger of. becoming a nation of navvies,” declared Mr H. IArmstrong, M.P., the other evening, after:strongly criticising the policy of tlie Govern went in regard to uiiomploynient; relief works. He said that the present Government could think or only tiyd Tilings—farming and navvying—arid* it bad made a hopeless mess of them. “Usury, Penury and Want.” “If the Coalition policy is adopted ■ usury, penury and want will be the order of the day.” In these words Mr G T- /Thurston, the Labour candidate for tlffi. Riccarton electorate concluded his opening address at the Riccarton Town iliall the other evening. Out of Proportion. “Mv chairman is a handsome man. Why? Because lie is well proportioned. If his head were twice as big as bis ( body you would laugh at him. Yet 'that is what is wrong with us in New Zealand 1 . Our economic life is out oi proportion.” —Mr L. C. lnde. pendent candidate, for Christchurch North. v? 5 -; What is Money? /■Althoughfwjvspoak glibly ol money evgry day, there are not a hundred men in New Zealand who know what 'money is,” said Mr L, 0. Walker, Independent candidate for Christchurch North. “Hear, hwl” assented a member of the audience. “That man who said ‘hear, hear,’ has a sou who is one of New Zealand’s few experts on tlie ' subject, ” “the" candidate added. Reciprocal Treatment. “V believe that we are going'to get more reciprocal treatment than in the past from the Old Country when we send our produce there, and the Old Country will supply our requirement in the way ol imports,” said Mr H. S. S. Kyle, Coalition candidate tor Riccarton, at Prehhleton; “then we won t need to send so much of our money to foreign countries.” More Production Needed. “Unless we keep up our production we are going to produce less and get less for what we produce, and so be deeper in' the mire.”—Mr H. S. S. Kyle, Coalition candidate for Riccarton. Two Banking Systems. “Mr Holland * has stated that he would take control of the hanking system. I think lie would have to do thal. I think he would need a couple of hanking systems to do what he. has set oilb to do.”—Mr Forbes at Rangiora. Interest Charges. “I know it is advocated that there should lie a reduction of interest by one per cent. A; reduction to that extent would be ol little benefit to the farmers because in a ]great'many cases they cannot pay their interest at all.”— The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, speaking at Rangiora. j Education Frills, Dealing with education, Mr Forbes declared that a man had said to him that it was better to give a boy a sound education without frills and remain .solvent than supply the frills and go bankrupt. “Ballance .and Seddon were broadminded men, and if they had com© up against a situation lik e this they would have done what I did.”; —The Prime Minister at Rangiora. : Relief Works Pay. ; “It is as much as we can afford to pay,” said the prime Minister (the Right Hon. G. W. Forbes), when asked at Rangiora ,if he considered that 12s a day was a fair rate of pay for married men on relief works. “T don't sav I like to see wages cut down, but ‘the reduction to 12s was made for the purpose of making the available money go as far as possible.” In reply to a further question. Mr Forbes expressed the opinion that the unemployment funds were being very economically administered.