“Third Party Risk” Seen By Mr Marshall

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30294, 21 November 1963, Page 16

“Third Party Risk” Seen By Mr Marshall

(From Our Own Reporter)

TIMARU, Nov. 20. There were two main political parties but there wm a “third party risk” and it was his hope that there would be a sufficient realisation of this risk of voting ■for some oilier party, the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Marshall) said at St. Paul's Parish House, Highfield, this evening. He was speaking in support of the National Party candidate of Timaru, Mr M. J. O'Reilly. There was an attendance of 114. National stood for liberty, property, progress. and security. "That is the basis of the real and deep difference between the two parties,” said Mr Marshall. On the question of liberty Mr Marshall said that under a National Government the scope of individual freedom was extended. Under Labour the scope of the state was extended. The National Government had provided safeguards against the abuse of power by the state and had also created the Economic and Monetary Council. Discussing the idea of security, Mr Marshall said the National Government saw more clearly the need and means for increasing production of wealth as the way of increasing the standard of living, whereas the Labour Party concentrated on redistribution of the

national wealth through the agencies of the welfare state. Mr Marshall said the increased costs proposed by the Labour Party took no account of the normal automatic increases in Government expenditure. What Mr Nordmeyer proposed was an additional 50 million, Mr Marshall said. He said a progressive and humanitarian policy had come in recent years from the National Party. Its opponent had grown old and lost its old reforming zeal. “National is a great political party. It has successfully united the interests of town and country. We have endeavoured to reconcile the interests of commerce and industry, and there has been a considerable increase in the volume of production,” he said. “We care for the aged, the sick, the young, and the misfits. We have the humanitarian sympathies for which our opponent long sought a monopoly. We believe it is the kind of government this country wants," Mr Marshall said.