SOCIAL CREDIT CONDEMNED
“ MILD POLITICAL IRRITATION ”
ADDRESS BY NATIONAL PARTY CHAIRMAN
Social Credit doctrines were untried, unwarranted, and unwanted, yet Social Credit could, by vote splitting, cause damage far beyond its real strength in the community, said Mr J. B. Jenkins, the chairman, in his address to the annual meeting of the CanterburyWestland division of the National Party yesterday. “A mild phase of political irritation,” was the description applied to Social Credit by Mr Jenkins, according to a supplied report. “It is not sufficient merely to keep the other party out of power,” Mr Jenkins said. “We must continually improve our handling of political affairs in the pursuit of progress. “We must make every endeavour to ensure that the aims of our party and the measures we take to put those aims into effect are understood by the voting public, who in November of next year will decide the type of Government they deserve.” .< ' Good progress had been .made in party organisation during the .year, Mr Jenkins said, and it was now stronger than at. any previous . mid*-election period. The key electorates of St. Albans and Lyttelton .both had increased memberships.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27988, 7 June 1956, Page 14
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