Membership Of National Party Increasing
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WEUNGTON. July 22. Financial membership of the National Party this year was expected to be well over a quarter of a million, stakes the annual report of the party, presented by the president fMr J. S. Meadowcraft) at the Dominion conference in Wellington. Membership was now rising after a normal betweenelections drop last year, continues the report, and with diligence on the pant of party workers this trend would continue. "There is no doubt that the widespread feeling in the community that the National Government has been a good government and that it will regain the Treasury benches makes it more difficult to gain pre-election support from those who think a special effort may not be required.
of Parliament to factories and places of interest National Party weeks had brought the activities of the party before the public and had resulted in encouraging increase* in membership.
"This is a challenge to the organisation and recent reports show that it is being taken up realistically." The report comments on the success of National Party weeks, held in many parts of the country over the last 12 months. These included special meetings and organised visits by members
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30190, 23 July 1963, Page 21
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