ELECTION POINTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26619, 15 November 1947, Page 6

ELECTION POINTS

Waipori Scheme “It is all very well for the Otago Daily Times and the Evening Star i.o decry the expansion of' the Waipori power scheme. They have stand-by plants just in case of a breakdown,” said Mr L. M. Wright last night at Caversham. “But there are a few other businesses and a few houses in the city as u ell. If we could do no more than break even with the extended scheme we would owe it to the people of Dunedin to carry on.” Millions of Trees “Do you people realise that you own millions and millions of trees which are going to be worth almost millions of pounds? ” asked Mr C: J. Hayward, Citizens' candidate for the City Council, last night. He said that, if elected, he would do his utmost to forward the expansion of the City Council's afforestation scheme, whicn .. would be of immense value to the city in tne future. Labour’s Leaven Election prospects in Dunedin are discussed in the People’s Voice, the New Zealand Communist Party organ, which is of opinion that “with an injection of new blood ” Labour could win back control of the city. “However," the People’s Voice concludes “apart from one or two very good candidates of the type of ‘Bill’ Richards and Mrs Biillen, there is not much leaven in the Labour dough: and it looks as though most-of the political vigour must come from the Communist candidate.” Nationalisation of Waipori?

“There is a grave danger, should a Labour Council be returned, of the nationalising of the Waipori electric power scheme. Power is one of the things they want to lay their, hands on because it' is a profit-making business,” .said: Mr J; -G. Barnes, .Citizens’ candidate for the City Council, speaking at Caversham last night. “ I shall fight with every, breath ip my body any attempt to lay hold on one of the biggest assets owned by this city.” Tribute to Mayor “I want to pay a tribute to the Mayor, whom I refuse to see included in any old men’s team,” said Mr L. M. Wright, speaking at Caversham last night. “He has always been a good skipper. He has been just and fair to everybody. We all got a fair deal from him, Labour councillors included. He was just as hard on us as he was on the Labour people.” Supply Shortage “There are engines in the railway workshops now which would be on the lines if they had three-eighths nuts,” said Mr J. G. Barnes, Citizens’ candidate for the City Council, in discussing shortages at Caversham last night. Mr Barnes said that, if the Government, with agents overseas could not get what it wanted, the chances of a city council getting everything it wanted were very slim.