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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 2

Lets qet rid Of THE MOSH EXPENSIVE 2/ f GOVERNMENT in NewZenlands & history { 2 9 FOOD IS Too DEAR CLothing IS THE cost 0F In eighteen months of Nationalist To0 DEAR G 0 VE RNMENT government, food prices have soared at a scandalous rate By removing sub- IS To 0 hiGh Bread, tea, milk, sugar, flour sidies and by un- leashing of infla- Nationalists protested about the basic foodstuffs-~have all tion Nationalists Labour Government expendi- gone up from 15 % to 50 % have C a u S e d thousands Butter rose only 4d Ib. in 14 years af Labour Govern- clothes prices to rise alarmingly. Families ture In eighteen months they' ve engaged ment_~but it jumped up 6d overnight with Nationalists: with growing children find the job of more Civil Servants, increased every Departmental Vote , Labour held down the cost of food and will do it again! clothing them financial heart-break: are Sperding millions more The Holland Governent is Controlled prices under Labour gave uS spending your money at the fastest rate it' $ ever been value for our money! spent! RENTS AND HOMES ARE TAXES ARE 83 NationALIST PROMISES Too DEAR ToO HIGH ARE To0 CHEAP State nere in- After boasting who says we can t re "Make your � go further. More for your money. creased D , ialists and duce taxation?" the Nationalists made "'We'Il solve the housing problem These election pro- rents of privately-owned houses minor tax rate reductions that benefited mises of the Nationclists have proved to be empty and have sky-rocketed. Labour kept only the wealthy ~and then took from cheap. If they believed in these prornises when they rents down! The cost ot home-building is almost pro- the people 822eoooo_ more in iraxae made them, then they' ve bungled the job badly. Banish tion: Taxation per rose more one hibitive now. More private homes were built under Nationalist year than it did in the pre- the bunglers. Vote for the return of honest government, Labour than ever before! vious 6 years of Labour! of experienced government We Gan d be prosperous aqain With LABOUR Inserted by the NZ Labour Party_