MAJOR DOUGLAS IN WELLINGTON

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21084, 8 February 1934, Page 13

MAJOR DOUGLAS IN WELLINGTON

♦ FINANCE AND ECONOMIC TRUTH (PRESS ASSOCIATION TILEURtH.) WELLINGTON, February 7. About 500 people, including many women, attended a civic reception to-day to Major C. H. Douglas, who, accompanied by Mrs Douglas, was given a rousing welcome. The Mayor (Mr T. C. A. Hislop) and Mrs Douglas, followed by Major Douglas and Mrs Hislop, Mr R. H. Nimmo (representing the Scottish societies) and others, were piped into the hall by a kilted piper. Major Douglas, in replying to the speeches of welcome, said that the rapidity of progress of any nation or individual depended in his opinion on the continuously growing appreciation of their relationships to fundamental laws. The fundamental thing required in financial systems and so forth was that they should reflect economic truth. The primary complaint made about the existing financial system was that it did not reflect facts. It was not in relation to truth. He believed a community of the type found in New Zealand and in a country like New Zealand was extraordinarily well placed to lead the world into a state of affairs where its systems and institutions reflected truth a little more accurately than at the present time. ADDRESS IN CHRISTCHUKCH. ''A most effective platform speaker with a complete mastery of his subject," is the description given by a Sydney journal of Major Douglas, after his address to a Sj'dney audience of 12,000. Major Douglas's address in Chrislchurch is advertised elsewhere in this issue. Box plans are at the Bristol, and tickets for unreserved seats mav be obtained at the Douglas Social Credit Office, 95 Gloucester street.