PATRIOTIC WORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 13

PATRIOTIC WORK.

NATIONAL PARTY'S HELP.

ACTIVITIES IN WAR PERIOD (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. A decision that the National party will maintain its organisation laid will take its full share of patriotic work in every part of the Dominion was made at a meeting of the Dominion executive of the party in Wellington yesterday. Representatives were present from all parts of New Zealand, said the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. A. Hamilton, to-night. Members were unanimous in this decision. It was pointed out that the party had an organisation spread through all districts, town and country, and with such rallying points as National clubs and other similar institutions, the party could and would concentrate on an effective drive in the interests of New Zealand's support of the war efforts of the Mother Country and the Allies.

This action would support the lead given by the Parliamentary section of the party, comprising the Opposition in the House of Representatives, which had already expressed willingness to cooperate with the Government in tile war effort. The party organisation, Mr. Hamilton added, would therefore concentrate on whatever form of patriotic endeavour was instituted in each district or ccntre.