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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 221, 17 September 1943, Page 15

HIGHLIGHTS of Labour's Achievements Labour administration has had but one goal _ U 'the greatest good for the greatest number; 11 Judged by that standard Labour has succeeded magnificently by bringing to everyone in New Zealand a pros- perity and security undreamed of in the past: NEW ZEALAND LEADS THE WORLD IN SOCIAL SECURITY REHABILITATION IS ALREADY IN ACTION Labour replaced E2,000,000 Pensions scheme with a E17,000,000 Already 10,000 men have returned to New Zealand and for them Social Security scheme that removed fear of want from the aged, the E300,000 has been paid out in loans for houses, E280,000 in finance for widowed, the invalided and the sick They added health benefits that pro- farms, E71,000 in furniture loans, E40,000 in trade training, E3,000 in vided free doctor , hospital, maternity care and medicine To-day the USA_ education. For purchase of tools of trade alone E1,300 has been made and Great Britain are planning for the Social Security scheme that is available in free-of-interest loans Nearly three-quarters of a million pounds already ours: To-day, not one political opponent of Labour opposes the have been spent already in order to give these men the opportunities they So well deserve. Labour' s Rehabilitation plans are not mere hopeful schemes scheme or seeks to remove it. -they work! LABOUR'S HOUSING RECORD IS UNEQUALLED PLAMNED PRODUCTION MEANS PROSPERITY ! In 1934 the number of Government housing loans was I Labour has granted nearly 8,000 loans and built 15,000 State homes. Labour was Advocates of "1 competitive private enterprise" fail to mention that under building houses at three times the previous rate until the war: During the Labour' s planned production factories have increased at the rate of three war accommodation for 170,000 men has been built_~enough to house a week, industrial output has doubled, employees (despite the war) in- the whole population of Wellington! Houses or camps? But critics of creased by nearly 50% They evidently forget that farm production reaches Labour' s housing policy never mention the war: When peace comes, the new all-time records and farmer S income likewise. And breadwinners know , Labour Government will build 16,000 homes a year till the housing if the critics don t, that the annual wages and salary bill has increased by problem is solved. E90,000, 0o0 under Labour! Vote LABOURoir