New Zealand Social Credit Political League (INC).  Official Policy for 1960 election.  The tenets of Social Credit.  OUR PRINCIPALS:  1. We believe that what is physically possible and desirable for the betterment of Mankina should be made financially possible.  2. Our basic principle is the establishment Of an economic social order built on the foundations of Brotherly Love, Truth, Justice and Honesty.  3. We believe that the Individual is more important than the State, and that Systems should be made for Man - not Man for Systems.  4. We believe that restrictive forms of Political and Financial Dictatorship, Monopoly and Bureaucracy should be strenuously opposed.  5. We believe in competitive enterprise, and that State owned business should conform to the same conditions as private owned concerns. We believe that the function of Government is to set fair rules.  6. We believe that the only purpose of Production is Consumption and that labour-saving is the proper purpose of labour-saving inventions.  7. We believe that the first necessity in establishing: our principles is to reform our present un-Christian monetary system, which is dishonest and unjust, and is the basic of many other evils.  OUR Purpose:  1. To cut taxation and reduce the cost of living.  2. To combat inflation, and restore the value of the £.  3. To protect and enhance the value of Wages, savings and pensions.  4. To use every means to stimulate production, and to ensure that as machines take the place of men, incomes will be maintained to effect distribution of the product.  5. To make possible the rapid introduction of labour-saving devices, both industrial and domestic.  6. To encourage skills in work by ensuring a just reward.  7. To increase opportunity for cultural, spiritual, and recreational activities.  OUR FIRST STEPS:  1. We will introduce a Bill of Rights for New Zealand to limit the powers of Government and safeguard the individual against the invasion of rights an liberties.  2. We will make all Orders-in-Councils and Acts of Administrative Bodies subject to appeal in a Court of Law.  3. We will secure to the people the ownership and use of their own credit.  4. We will ensure that the Reserve Bank carries out its legislative function as a National Credit Authority, thereby stabilising the purchasing power of money.  5. We will substantially reduce taxation and costs of production in primary and secondary industries.  6. We will increase pensions and other benefits without adding to taxation.  7. We will extend, without increasing taxation, the present subsidies on consumer goods to cover a far wider range.  8. We will drastically cut Death Duties to combat Socialism and Disinheritance.  9. We will provide interest free money for public and local body works to the limit of labour and materials available.  CONSTITUTIONAL.  A. A Bill of Rights will be drawn up and put on the Statute Book to protect the liberties and rights of the individual. (similar to the Albertan Bill of Rights.)  1. A Committee of Enquiry will be set up to study and decide which regulation should be amended or repealed- for example, these that clash with the Bill of Rights.  2. All orders in Council and acts of administrative bodies to be subject to the right of appeal in a Court of Law.  B. We re-affirm our intention of maintaining the three year life for Parliament.  C. We deplore the standard of debate in the House of Representatives and all possible steps will be taken to improve it.  FINANCIAL.  1. We will secure to the people the use and ownership of their own credit.  2. Money required for governmental purposes within New Zealand over and above that obtained from revenue, will be provided  from the Reserve Bank Interest-free and, where circumstances warrant, debt free.  3) In a developing Socia1Credit economy, normal business relations between the trading banks and their customers will remain undisturbed, but when credit is issued, the Trading Banks shall not claim such credit as their own property but will act only as agents for the Reserve functioning as the National Credit Authority.  4) Savings: The Post Office Savings Bank and other Saving Banks will be maintained as repositories of the people's savings and equitable rates of interest will be paid.  5) The Trustee Act will be amended to enable investments to be made approved industrial and agricultural undertakings. A National Developments Corporation be established advise on investments, which will include those of private individuals, estate , trusts, all savings banks and building societies. The integrity of such investments will be State guaranteed.  6) The National Credit Authority be required to produce to Parliament annually a National Balance Sheet.  7) Fuller Government accounts providing all information and presented in conformity with modern accounting practice will be tabled before Parliament.  Inflation:  We will ensure that people are able to buy what they produce or get in exchange of their production and stabilise the cost of living in the following ways:  (i) The extension Of subsidies on essential items.  (ii) The revision and fair administration of the Trade Practices Act to prevent advantages obtained from other parts of our policy being filched from the public by undue profiteering, and higher prices.  TAXATION.  To restore incentive and reduce costs, substantial reductions in taxation will be announced by the Leader at the opening at the campaign.  SOCIAL SECURITY.  A. Without increasing. taxation, benefits will be increased ensure a reasonable standard of living comparable with other sections of the community, and to correct existing anomalies and inequities.  B. We will remove certain anomalies from the Act which penalise applicants for benefits such as those who are self-employed and married persons who both work.  C. Pensioners will be entitled to an annual warrant to travel free on government owned road and rail services outside holiday periods.  D. The Means Test will be abolished.  FARM POLICY.  Preamble:  The Social Credit Land and Agricultural Policy will be directed  to:-  (i) Increasing the production of health-giving foodstuffs.  (ii) Security of tenure.  (iii) Promotion of land settlement and development.  A. The farmer's standard of living.  Social Credit is pledged to assure the farmer his cost of production which includes his just reward on a basis equivalent to that of the rest of New Zealand.  A search for alternative overseas markets for the disposal of surplus exports, not required by traditional trade connections, will be vigorously pursued.  Trade commissions will be appointed to prospective marketing countries.  Land Tenures.  (i) It shall be the Social Credit objective to make it financially possible for people to own their own land on_ the basis of private individual ownership.  Occupying land- Residential qualifications.  We are opposed to undue aggregation of productive farmland. No obstacles will be placed in the way of people using their own resources to develop marginal land. In these cases residential clauses will not apply.  D. Land development.  (i) The policy of land development at present being carried out will be pursued. _  (ii) Loans up to one hundred per cent will be made available on a progressive basis at not more than three per cent to private persons for land settlement development.  Research.  Research will be greatly intensified with more emphasis on the relationship between agriculture and general health of man, animal and soil. For this purpose there will be increased grants for facilities for agricultural, plant and animal research. Diagnostic centres will be set up in all suitable districts.  F. A School for Veterinary Science will be established immediately at Taieri.  G. Farm Training.  All existing farm education and training schemes will, where necessary, be extended to cope with the current need, and a voluntary scheme of adult farm training will be introduced. At the conclusion of training graded applicants will be eligible for finance.  H. Capital stock.  Farmers will be given the right to choose between the present system of standard value for livestock whereby all stock is trading stock, and the system whereby capital stock is treated as such and only trading stock is taken into account in arriving at taxable income. No additional tax shall be incurred in making the changeover  I. Reserve Accounts:  All primary producers will be given the opportunity to voluntarily establish reserve accounts to cover disasters due to natural phenomena and not otherwise insurable, similar to the Snow Loss Reserve legislation.  Secondary industry.  That we will encourage. secondary industry both from the point  of view of expanding existing and setting up of new industries  more particularly where:  (A.) It can be shown that the industry concerned can operate at prices competitive with identical imported articles.  (B.) The industry can utilise efficiently local raw materials.  (C.) Our co-operation with private enterprise in the expansion of industry will be to the benefit of the people of New Zealand. We recognise that it a matter of national importance to arrest the decline Of the coal industry especially in regard to its potential for conserving overseas funds. We will encourage greater use of coal in its present form and proceed with the establishment of coal utilisation in other forms as follows:  1) coal Utilisation:  (a) the manufacture of brickettes  (b) the production of nitrogenous manners.  (c) the production of tar, ammonia, disinfectants and metallurgical coke and other by-products.  2) The development of other industries utilising such products as oil and natural gas ironsands, bauxite, etc. will be fostered.  3) Harbours:  We favour the maintenance of Greymouth harbour to accommodate ships up to 5,000 tons and Westport to 5,000 tons, together with the development at Wanganui and New Plymouth ports.  · 4) We will foster and assist the expansion of industrial research to improve the natural efficiency and ability of New Zealand workers. Scholarship will be made available to enable to study and train overseas.  5) Investment of Overseas Capital  (a) Interests of New Zealand economy must be paramount.  (b) More information be made available to the public re terms and conditions.  (c) New Zealand investors will be given the opportunity to invest in these enterprises.  (d) Outgoings of New Zealand exchange in respect of dividends on overseas capital shall not exceed the savings and/or earnings on exchange of effected by the industry.  Export Trade.  A. In order to stabilise our overseas income we will:  a) Expand trade with others countries by setting up trade offices 121 likely areas and so diversify our export markets  (b) Foster a wide range of. export products.  B. Sufficient exchange will be reserved to provide for essential capital equipment and raw materials.  Health POLICY.  In the formulation of a health policy, the definition of  the term "Health" is in accord with that laid down by the World  Health Organisation, which states "Health is state a of  mental and Social well being and not just the absence of disease.  To this. end, we believe in the ultimate establishment of the best possible Health Service obtainable, one which is all-embracing and which will provide for the training of sufficient personnel in all the branches of healing.  After twenty years of a State Medical Service, its virtues and defects are clearly defined. Much of it is good much is bad. It is the duty of the Government, together with the Health authorities, to See that the bad is removed and  the good made better. It is a mistake to look upon the Medical  Service as something fixed and immutable. It needs freedom to grow, and if it is to work out its destiny in research and it application to the improvement of human wellbeing it must become progressively freer the restrictions as State Control General.  1) Owing to the fact that there is a strong evidence of the injurious effects of the addition of non-nutritive substances to food, steps will be taken to safeguard the public health against this growing practices.  2) We will establish a new Ministerial Post, a Minister of Science, to promote Scientific and technological deve1opments. The Minister:' would be responsible for the work Of medical, veterinary and agricultural research councils, D.S.I.R., nature conservancy and the atomic energy programme in the future.  3) We will develop a Research Establishment to investigate a new and/or controversial methods of treatment under optimum conditions. All treatment will be checked scientifically and the results circulated to the medical profession, medical libraries etc.  4) The promotion and maintenance of good health is an important form of disease prevention, and to this end, as important accessory, We will establish a system of health education which will include in the curriculum such objects as the desirability and advisability of natural foods and excesses of all kinds.  5) We do not believe in compulsory mass medication. We believe this is contrary to the fundamental principles of democracy.  6) We believe in the freedom of choice whereby every citizen has the full democratic right to obtain whatever form of treatment he or she may desire, but we do believe that in matters of sanitation, public hygiene and necessary quarantine, State direction is necessary.  General Hospitals  1) We undertake to provide now buildings and equipment and as when required in order to meet the full requirements of our rapidly expanding population.  2) Construction of the new buildings to be in permanent material and the costs to be provided from interest free money.  3) Future buildings. to pay more attention to full out-patient facilities, with adequate consulting and operating rooms with a certain number of recovery beds. If these departments were properly planned considerable savings of hospital beds would result.  4) In order to reduce the amount of paper work and bureaucracy in the running of hospitals, we will encourage a maximum delegation of real responsibility to competent hospital boards, and will do everything possible to speed up central decisions where these are necessary.  5) We will encourage full-time hospital officers to avail selves of overseas refresher courses.  6) We will review the salaries of full-time hospital officers in the light or salaries earned by Specialists and General Practitioners not engaged in hospital work.  This review will include other hospital officers, and nursing profession, and not only those officers with medical degrees. These reviews in the salary scale will be made in order to retain those highly qualified officers in the hospital service, and it is intended to bring the salaries into line with those obtaining industry and civilian life.  PRIVAT HOSPITALS.  1) We will provide money at low rates of interest to Private and Maternity Hospitals for renovations, improvements or new buildings.  a) We would increase the subsidies paid to private hospitals to:  £2.2.6. per patient per day for Grade A hospitals.  £l.17.6. per patient per day for Grade B hospitals  GENERAL PRACTITIONERS.  1) We will review the Social Security charges, mileage allowances and maternity payments after consultation with a committee by the Practitioners for the purpose.  2) We will review the scale of consultation and anaesthetic charges for maternity and private practice.  3) We will lift the restrictions on prescribing, as we believe the Medical Profession on the whole is not as unpublic inspirited profession, and that as long as prescriptions are not excessive over quantities their duty is best done by considering the patient's well-being first.  VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS.  A Social Credit government will not interfere with voluntary organisations, but would assist these organisations if it were necessary or desirable after consultation with the organisation concerned; e.g. Plunket Society, Crippled Children's Society, and Alcoholics Anonymous.  CHIROPRACTORS.  We believe that the reason given by the Public Health  Committee in recommending that the Chiropractors Act l959 be not  proceeded with are not sufficiently valid to cause the Bill's rejection, and a Social Credit government would proceed with the Registration and recognition of the Chiropractors Association as soon as the necessary legislation could be enacted.  MENTAL HEALTH.  1) We will set up an independent committee of Inquiry to enquire  into the whole field of Mental Health in New Zealand. This Committee would include overseas authorities and the report of the Committee's findings would be published and made public.  2) We will set up an independent committee to investigate the need for legal reform relating to Mental Health. The reform to be divided into five main categories:  (a) Certification procedure.  (b) Patient's property rights and civilian rights.  (c) Review of patient's conditions from time to time.  (d) Administration of Mental Hospitals.  (e) Reform of the mental health act.  3) We will set up two Professorial Posts of Psychiatry in New Zealand. One to be concerned with undergraduate training at the Otago Medical School, and the other for the purpose of providing adequate training for qualified practitioners wishing to specialise in Psychiatry.  It is reasonable to suggest that the Professor responsible  for graduate training should be in one of the centres where a  mental hospital exists. A close liaison between general and mental hospitals could then develop.  4)We will training under the Professorial Board for psychiatric workers, teachers and speech and occupational therapists.  5) Until such time as the organisation of undergraduate and graduate training is complete and functioning, bursaries would be granted to allow overseas training.  6)We will grant professional status to qualified nurses, both male and female.  7) We believe that there should be at least 14 beds for psychiatric patients in general hospitals per 100.000 of the regional population served with adequately staffed outpatient' departments.  8) We arc of the opinion that chronic alcoholism is among the commonest neuroses in New Zealand, with an estimated 25,000 sufferers. Special emphasis in the training in the diagnosis of this disease will be fostered, and as the only truly satisfactory method of treatment is by such bodies will be officially recognised, and given as much Government assistance as required.  9) We would foster the provision of Mental Health Associations to assist in the aftercare and rehabilitation of mental hospital patients.  10) We believe that present official policy has a misguided emphasis on extending residential accommodation and a mistaken preference for large institutions. Both are opposed to modern opinion, and to trends elsewhere.  We would concentrate on smaller, more widely spread hospitals to deal with acute cases. In addition, we would foster the growth of a number of modest country house type institutions to which patients may be taken during the day, and from which patients could go each day to suitable work.  11) We will increase the allowance from the Social Security Fund to long term patients from 2/6 per week to 10/- per week.  Mental Deficiency services.  A good deal of this section would be integrated with the previous section.  1) We believe that there should some alteration to the nomenclature or the mental deficiency disease. Certain types should be made notifiable diseases, and that the admission and subsequent reassessment be drastically revised that a disabled persons register be established.  2) We believe there should be an expansion of extramural service with the aim of rehabilitating and supporting mental defectives in ordinary society. Cases requiring residential care would receive it in neighbourhood, hostels or large houses converted for that purpose.  3) To encourage and facilitate extramural care in the interacts of the patient, and to discourage too clearly admission to institutions, particularly for children, we would:  (a) Increase the child allowance to 30/- per week to parents of mentally defective children and psychically handicapped children unable to attend school.  (b) Allocate realistic levels of payment to foster parents.  (c) Establishing a register of suitable foster homes.  4) We would ensure that the community service would be administered with considerable local autonomy and with the participation of voluntary bodies, parents, medical and other professional workers, as well as representatives of hospitals and educational boards.  5) Residential institutions would either supply special education remedial specialists, vocational trainings. Sheltered workshops or have access to them in the extramural activities in the neighbourhood. Their functioning would be integrated with the latter, especially through the agency of the psychiatric workers.  Industrial POLICY.  Social Credit acknowledges the right of all workers to organise and strive to improve their conditions, their rates of pay and hours of work.  Trade Union Membership  A. Social Credit believes that all men have the right to join together in voluntary association for their mutual benefit. At the same time we realise that some workers consider that their interests are best served by a compulsory union. Therefore a Social Credit Government will conduct a secret ballot among the members of each Trade Union so that the members shall decide for themselves whether membership of their union shall be voluntary or compulsory.  B. We reaffirm our endorsement of the principle of conciliation and arbitration in the settlement of industrial disputes. We will investigate the provisions and administration of the present Industrial Arbitration and Conciliation Act, with a view to revision.  C. We will arrange a meeting' of interested parties to study the possibility of staggering annual holidays throughout the year to ensure the provision of adequate services at all times.  D. Shopping Hours: As we believe that the public should have much greater freedom in which to make their purchases and  to transact their business a Social Credit Government will completely overhaul the present restrictions on days and hours on which shops and businesses may open, without interference with the 40 hour working week.  S. Automation: Automation will result in the production of more wealth and is therefore a good thing. However, we  realise that there will be problems in the transitional period from an industrial point of view. In the ultimate and overall we are satisfied that in an expanding Social Credit economy this labour will be rapidly absorbed in other work; but during this transitional period we would guarantee to all workers who were displaced the amount of their award rate until other employment was made available.  F. Living Wage: We believe that the workers should receive an adequate income for forty hours work to enable them to support themselves and their families.  G. Reward for continuity of service: As an incentive to encourage continuity of service in employment, we will grant one extra day's holiday annually for each year of service up, to ten years after the first year.  H. Co-operative enterprise: We favour. the principle of co-operative enterprise.  I. Margin of skill: We will legislate to ensure a legal margin of 33% between skilled and unskilled labour with provision for a higher rate for specialised qualifications.  J. Finance for business: We will provide finance up to 7% for workers wishing to commence their own business similar to the conditions extended under the rehabilitation scheme applying to ex-servicemen.  A. We reaffirm the principles of free education for every child from kindergarten to university irrespective of race, colour or creed  B. Education shall be directed towards producing clear thinking citizens who appreciate their rights as well as their duties, and who take pride in both their working and leisure achievements.  C. The Primary School Cirriculum and teaching methods will be altered to ensure that children receive a thorough grounding in reading, writing and spelling and arithmetic, in order that they shall be more adequately equipped for the secondary and university stages of their education and ultimate vocation in life.  D. In addition to preparing a child for a profession or occupation which lie likes and is suited to, our policy is to help him find hobbies and cultural or aesthetic pursuits which give him pleasure and satisfaction.  E. We will reduce the size of classes immediately accommodation (housing and classrooms) and staff are available.  F. Teachers' salaries shall compare favourably with other professions  G. Attendance will be compulsory from seven to fifteen years, as at present, but the Headmaster will have discretionary power to allow a pupil to leave on parents1 request before 15, if 142' years or more at the commencement of the school year.  H.  Location of universities will be determined by where they can render the greatest service to the whole community. We will continue to cater for extra mural students so that the needs of the professions and industry will not be neglected.  I. Salaries of university personnel will be commensurate with the equivalent positions overseas.  J. The N.Z. Council for Educational Research will be enlarged and given sufficient grants to function as widely as was originally intended  K. A closer liaison will be developed between adult education, secondary schools, universities and industry so that each can co-operate more effectively with the others to obtain the maximum national benefit from technological advances.  RECREATION AND Delinquency.  To provide more opportunities for the greater enjoyment of our growing leisure time we will foster the work of recreational bodies and social welfare organisations by providing financial assistance to them to develop playing fields, erect club houses, and purchase necessary equipment etc.  To combat the serious increases in child delinquency we will strengthen censorship of films, radio, T.V, reading matter and recordings available to the public0  Music Drama and Arts:  Financial assistance will be given to foster the growing popularity of theatre, ballet and music:  (a) Taxes payable by visiting artists and companies would be modified so as not to be a deterrent to their visiting our country, and so depriving New Zealanders' 0 of this valuable form of entertainment.  (b) We will extend the scope of the adult education system.  (c) The motion picture amusement tax will be abolished.  WOMEN AND CHILDREN.  In order to protect the lot of woman and children, which vital section of our community is too often neglected, and which is essential to the maintenance of the all important home unit in our society, the best approach being through community effort and the role of the state being limited, we will institute the following reforms and safeguards.  A. Set up a committee of representatives of the Dominion Women's organisations, and other interested bodies, to advise the government on necessary legislation.  B. Encourage the work of marriage guidance councils throughout the country with women having at least equal representatives on these councils0  HOUSING.  A. State Advances:  (i) The functions of the State Advances Corporation will continue to provide finance at low rates of interest.  (ii) The rate will not be more than 3%.  (iii) Finance will be made available for both old and new homes.  (iv) We will encourage the building of new houses providing up to 100% finance to the limit of £3,000 on the house.  (v) For those who wish to build their own houses on a progressive basis, finance will be made available up to 1O~ at 3% interest per annum subject to supervision and building to an approved final plan.  B. We will continue the policy of building state rental houses while encouraging home ownership.  C. In country towns and rural districts we will expedite the building of accommodation for police officers, school teachers9 civil servants and farm workers to encourage them to seek work in these areas.  D. The purchase price of the first house to be occupied by the purchaser will be exempt from Stamp Duty up to £4,000.  B. We will assist people to provide accommodation for their parents, if they are in receipt of the age benefit, in the following ways:  (1) By introducing legislation to enable the construction of self-contained flats for parents as an addition to the existing homes owned by the family.  (2) Finance for these flats will be made available up to £1000 at two percent, £500 of which will be an interest-free suspensory loan to be written off at the rate of £100 per annum, so long as the flat is occupied by one or both of the parents.  RADIO AND TELEVISION.  Social Credit favours the early establishment of TV in New Zealand under a system of democratic corporation direction, and progressive development. The corporation will consist of nominees of the people, organisational interests, including the radio industry, and government, and would operate under Charter. It would be charged as a first responsibility with ensuring freedom of speech and expression for the people over this medium. Social Credit is opposed to both State Monopoly, as exists at present, and Private Monopoly in the people1s television and radio systems. The same corporation will also direct our existing radio broadcasting system on similar lines, will completely over-haul it and ensure that the indifferent standard of service at present evident in many country areas is improved to a satisfactory standard. TV and radio broadcasting are public services paid for by the public, who should control and use them as their democratic channels of freedom of speech and expression.  AFFORESTATION.  Afforestation programmes in operation at present will be continued and where necessary expanded, particularly in the Nelson and Canterbury districts, to justify the development of pulp industries.  In general the present policy is good except where Overseas interests are becoming dominant e.g., Tasman Paper and Pulp and associated Kaingaroa Logging Company and the Murupara Scheme. We will ensure that New Zealand will retain control over such schemes.  Public relations especially over 1080 experiments will be overhauled and the vote for noxious animal control should be increased on the research side of extermination. (Present shooting policy is not effective.)  The Forest Service must be made to co-ordinate and co-operate more with other Departments, particularly with the proposed Nature Conservancy and with regard to soil erosion control.  Increased planting of trees on privately owned land will be encouraged. The value of plantation belts to be free of Death Duty to encourage farmers and others to plant trees.  Surplus trees from the Forestry Service will be made available free to farm Forestry associations and interested persons.  ELECTRIC POLICY.  A. We are against the extension of the Waikato river scheme and will concentrate on the development of resources such as in the East Coast, Wanganul, Gisborne and Wairakei Geothennal areas of the North Island.  B. Power supply authorities will be encouraged to develop their own power resources whore it can be shown that it is economically sound and in the public interest.  IMMIGRATION.  We will continue a policy of immigration from selected European stock. The number of immigrants admitted each year will be controlled in order to ensure that their absorption into the labour force will not create unemployment arid that accommodation and national facilities will be adequate. We will continue to take a proportion of families with handicapped members.  PENAL REFORM.  We consider that the reform of the penal system is long overdue and that New Zealand conditions compare unfavourably with those in other countries. In order to carry out the necessary changes a committee will be set up comprising representatives from government departments, directly concerned with the administration of our penal institutions and bodies, including women1s organisations, having a special interest in the present system and its reform. The government would be guided by the conclusions of this committee.  SCENIC ATTRACTIONS.  That New Zealand scenic attractions must be preserved, and where such attractions are threatened with destruction or impairment by public works or industrial enterprises, the relative value of the attraction and the enterprise must be considered, and in all cases alternative sites not involving scenic attractions will be thoroughly investigated even though this may involve some extra cost and inconvenience. These attractions must be preserved for the permanent enjoyment of all.  We do not approve the present scheme for the use of Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri to provide electric power for an aluminium industry.  TOURIST TRADE.  A. The tourist industry represents a valuable potential for "Potential invisible exports. To that end a Social Credit government will remove bureaucratic restrictions which are preventing expansion by private enterprise. These restrictions impede the provisions of adequate hospitality and transport facilities.  B. We will protect, and where possible improve, our scenic attractions which are our national heritage.  C. We will encourage the improvement and diversification of sporting and recreational facilities as added attractions to overseas visitors.  D. We will improve and extend the present publicity given New Zealand in such media as international magazines and television films to publicise Now Zealand and its unique attractions as widely as possible  SOIL CONSERVATION AND RIVER CONTROL.  1. The General policy of tax reduction will do much to allow individual farmers to control erosion without relying on State aid.  2. Conservation is at present under several Statutes and the whole position is very confused A Social Credit Government would set up a Nature Conservancy Council to formulate and put into action without delay an interim conservation policy for a three year period. At the same time to instigate both short and to instigate both short and long term scientific investigations of conservation problems.  3. Conservation under Soil Conservation and River Control Council policy at present is strongly weighted towards river control. This world should be sustained and increased but the fact recognised that this is dealing mainly with effects and not causes.  4. The present administration and expenditure on Soil Conservation is very low.  Until such time as the Nature Conservancy is able to bring forward its policies and while its administration is becoming geared to this vital question of Soil Conservation, the Social Credit Government will:-  (a) Substantially increase grants for soil erosion research and control.  (b) Increase conservation activity in the control of high country erosion using all possible modern mechanical machinery and methods including hydraulic control.  (c) Promote greater contour development in lower level watersheds wherever possible.  (d) Assure that the Crown accept full responsibility for erosion control on sill lands under its control including in some cases leasehold properties.  (e) Grant loans at low rates of interest for farm  development where erosion is to be controlled.  (f) Greatly increase Government support for the newly established Tussock Grasslands and Mountain Lands Research Institute.  MAORI AFFAIRS.  A. We believe that we are one people, and that there should be equal rights of citizenship between the two races in all aspects within the community.  B. Waitangi Day shall be a national holiday to commemorate the union of the two races. (6th February).  C. Where they qualify, Maoris should be members of any inter-national team going overseas, otherwise New Zealand should not send a team, or if it does, it should not be designated as a fully representative New Zealand team.  D. We will call a round table conference of interested parties including the Maori leaders, to discuss outstanding problems such as the following:  (a) The serious drift of the Maoris from the country to the city.  (b) Land ownership and titles.  (c) The housing problem and youth hostels.  (d) Maori education.  (e) Use of leisure time and increased recreational facilities  DEFENCE.  While using all our influence to prevent war, our defence policy is to provide the most up to date and efficient equipment necessary to defend our shores and for co-operation with other members of the Commonwealth. There should be a nucleus of highly trained personnel in all three services capable of ready expansion in the event of an emergency. All available scientific measures will be taken to protect civilians in the event of atomic warfare, and the present civilian defence organisations will be given every support  EXTERNAL POLICY.  The British Commonwealth and Empire:  We affirm our belief in Christian Principles and will endeavour to put emphasis on this as a guide to all Government activities  We believe that the British countries have the right to live and trade together as a family. We will endeavour to strengthen the traditional British Ties. We will combat all subversive ideologies and activities.  International Relations:  I  We will support the Western Nations in their efforts to preserve peace and harmony and will co-operate with all nations in this endeavour. We will support the United Nations insofar as it works for true freedom, peace and economic security for all peoples and nations. (We are opposed to such mandatory inter-national agreements as Bretton Woods, World Bank and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade where they are against the interests of New Zealand and the British Commonwealth.)  We will endeavour to initiate a permanent Commonwealth Council to promote co-operation within the Commonwealth and Empire and to secure a united front in international relations.  GENERAL.  A. Disaster covers: We will extend the scope of war damage and earthquake insurance fund covers to apply in individual cases where abnormal disasters occur caused by natural phenomena and for which no compensation is received on the grounds that it is not a district disaster.  B. Airports: We believe that it is essential that there be airports of international standard both in the North and South Islands. Towards this end we will finance with interest-free loans the construction of such an airport at Mangere and complete facilities at Harewood to bring this airport up to international standard. We will review the trans-Tasman rights and re-open negotiations with other interested international airlines.  C. Liquor Laws: We recognize that the liquor licensing laws must be overhauled and will conduct a referendum to lot people decide the system they desire, with a choice of several alternatives, namely:  (i) Existing conditions.  (ii) Extension of Hours.  (iii) Staggered Hours.  (iv) Licensing of restaurants to serve light ales and wines with meals.  D. Transport Licensing Authority: The present thirty-mile limit on transport operators operating in opposition to the railways will be repealed.  E. Local Body Amalgamation: In every scheme for local body amalgamation a poll of the ratepayers concerned will be taken, and each area affected must pass the proposal by majority0  F. Ward System of Local Body Government: Upon presentation of a petition by five per cent of the electors in any local body requesting the introduction of the ward system, a poll of the electors affected will be taken.  a. Tenders: We will ensure that successful tenders for Government contracts and purchases may be examined by all tenderers.  It will be the policy of every Social Credit member of parliament to encourage his electorate to establish a non-party political organisation of electors to act as a Liaison Committee to consult with him in matters concerning the electorate.