NATIONAL POLICY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 229, 28 September 1938, Page 10

NATIONAL POLICY.

I have followed closely and with deep interest the political opinion* and programme of both the Labour and Xational parties. I have supported the Nationalists whenever possible by voicing niv agreement with their views and challenging the principles an-1 general feasibility of Labour legislation. Xow that electioneerin r propaganda has commenced in earnest and the public has been given an outline of both parties' platforms. I recognise the folly of such support. The Xational party had previously denounced all so-.-ial reforms. In its platform it has in some measure introduced nearly every one. Surely men of principles who have held Xational ideals in jhigh esteem cannot but regard this adoption jas a forfeiture of the right of this National j party to tbeir support. To be true to a good cause is praiseworthy; to betray it unpardonable. The Xational welfare depends upon the .retention of the National principle. I trust someone will rise to the occasion and preserve Xational principles in their true conservative element. Earl Baldwin proved their value. Such a sterling cruse is worthy of sterling advocates. If it does not receive them Xew .Zealand will drift—whither I know not " LUCIEX BLACKBURN".