Allow light smacks, but leave the face - Conservative candidateMAHVASH ALI/STUFF Paul Davie talks about New Lynn. MAHVASH ALI/STUFF Conservative Party's candidate for New Lynn, Paul Davie, and doesn't like that smacking is banned. MAHVASH ALI/STUFF Paul Davie said New Zealand was not Maori land, it was "God's land". The New Lynn candidate said he wanted to focus on what people needed to hear and not what they "wanted" to hear. "They [youth] don't know how to bring up children, they don't know how to identify post-natal depression and that can be in either male or female."

Source: Stuff August 28, 2017 02:15 UTC