NATIONAL

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 5, Issue 10, 4 August 1987, Page 11

NATIONAL

"Our policies include repealing the superannuation surtax, reducing the price of food by removirig GST from basic food items, doctors' fees and local body rates and abolishing death and gift duties. "We have announced a policy of bold reform in education to again provide a world class education system in New Zealand. Our new policy of providing up to three years training for all secondary school leavers will enable young New Zealanders to acquire the skills needed in today's world. "Equally, we are not going to continue paying people to do nothing, so we will provide either training or work options for the unemployed. "Our policy on law and order is to toughen the sentences for violent criminal offending and, in particular, to increase the maximum penalty for rape to 20 years. The upsurge in violent crime must be stopped and we will provide the additional police resources necessary. "Areas like the King Country depend to a large extent on the profitability of farming. If farmers lack profits, they can't spend in the towns. Our policy for agriculture is to provide the economic environment which will enable them to return to profitability. Too many farming families have been savaged in the

last three years quite unfairly. Farming and other exporters will benefit from our policy of getting interest rates down to 10% or 12% and therefore achieving a more correctly valued New Zealand dollar. New Zealand desperately needs the exports of our farmers to help pay our way in the world. "We are also committed to families farming the land, not state corporations. We will reestablish farm settlement programmes to enable young farming families to get on to their own farms. We have outlined our proposals to significantly change the livestock taxation scheme to make it workable. Present proposals would be grossly unfair to many livestock owners. "I have great faith in the future of the King Country and the future of New Zealand. New Zealanders are a great people, and if given sensible leadership from government, will achieve great things for our country. "But first we must heal the divisions of the last three years. We must reestablish fair priorities and adopt policies that enable everyone to have a fair go. "The policies of the National Party as outlined for this election are designed to achieve these objectives and will, when implemented, bring back confidence to New Zealand."