NATIONAL PARTY’S ACHIEVEMENTS
REVIEW BY DOMINION PRESIDENT (From Our Own Reporter) m/LARU, April 13. '“The National Party has held office for 18 months and members of the party are fully satisfied with its performance, much Of the policy on which it was elected having been implemented,” said the New Zealand president (Sir Wilfrid Sim, K.C.), who addressed a meeting of party members at Timaru to-night The National Party had been obliged. he said, to further its policy in circumstances of great difficulty after a long record of industrial disturbances because of unrestricted militancy and a system of State control that could not be dismantled overnight Together with that, there were inflationary trends, world wide in their scope, which tended to get out of hand. The party had gone forward with sincerity of purpose, meeting the difficulties as they arose with courage and determination. The organisation itself was strong and united and never in better heart. The strength and unity of the National Party mieht well Drove the salvation of New Zealand in the Communist cold war to which the country was being subjected at present in the form of the strike of the watersiders.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26396, 14 April 1951, Page 8
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