NATIONAL PLANS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 227, 24 September 1943, Page 2

NATIONAL PLANS

"JUSTICE FOR ALL"

MR. HOLLAND'S MESSAGE

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Thursday.

"The people of New Zealand will have on Saturday the responsibility of choosing their Governmetn for the next three years," said the leader of the National party, Mr. Holland, in a pre-election message. "The responsibility should be exercised with a sense of duty and with a knowledge that important issues are in the balance. Upon the result of the voting may depend in large measure the way of life of New Zealanders for many years to come.

"The privilege of being a citizen of a democracy demands that every elector cast his vote. I therefore urge that, whatever his political opinions may be, every voter should go to the poll so that the result may truly reflect political opinion in the Dominion. We should remernDer that if it had not been for the valour of our fighting men we would not be in a position to exercise the priyilege of voting at a general election. We therefore owe it to our lighting men to vote wisely.

"In the coming years the interests of our lighting men will demand in the Government men of ability, qualified, first, to direct our war effort toward victory and, secondly, to grapple with the immense problems of reconstruction and transition from war to peace economy. "The issue before the electors is clear," continued Mr. Holland. "The contest lies between two major parties National and Labour. The National party stands for the largest possible measure of freedom for the individual citizen, while the Labour party stands for absolute State control and domination. On the one nana, we offer an end to red tape and regimentation and scope for initiative, energy and ambition. The Government, on the other hand, merely offers increasing instalments of the socialistic controls with which it has surrounded the lives of New Zealanders during the last eight years.

Progressive Policy "In this campaign the National party has presented a progressive non-sectional policy planned solely to bring about a better and happier New Zealand. The Government, however, has relied on the past, but the people to-day want to look forward, not back. "After eight years of Labour administration a swelling volume of disapproval of the Government is reported from every quarter of the Dominion. The National party does not promise something for nothing, but it does promise better government in the interests of the people as a whole. Every plank of our policy has been studied with the greatest care. We have the plans, the will and, among our candidates, the character, ability and experience to implement our proposals. These will ensure justice for all. Their aim is to promote prosperity and contentment. "Even our opponents have found nothing to attack in our policy and the absence of criticism must be accepted as endorsement of its merits. We leave the decision to the good judgment of the people and will accept their verdict."