Labour Members Will Travel

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30677, 17 February 1965, Page 3

Labour Members Will Travel

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 16. The Labour Party will launch a twomonth “meet the people” campaign before the forthcoming session of Parliament. The campaign was announced tonight by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Nordmeyer) at a press conference after the Labour Party caucus meeting.

He said Labour Minister and members would trave throughout New Zealand ti see the country, find out th problems faced by differen localities, and speak to th

people. Mr Nordmeyer said he would travel “quite a bit” himself.

Mr Nordmeyer also an nounced a caucus decision on the “plight of superannuitants.”

He said the caucus deplored that the Government had taken no action to alleviate the plight of superannuitants and others on fixed incomes who had been promised by the Government that their special problem would be sympathetically dealt with. “The view was expressed that although the Government had decided to call Parliament together a month earlier than usual, the international situation and the economic position into which New Zealand was drifting justified calling Parliament together earlier than May.” The Opposition will urge the Government to make strong representations for a reconvening of the Geneva conference under the joint chairmanship of Russia and Britain in an effort to reach a settlement in South Vietnam.

“It has now become obvious that a military solution is impossible and a diplomatic

rs settlement imperative,” said el Mr Nordmeyer. to The statement said caucus le decided to reiterate its view nt that military forces in South le Vietnam would not in them-

selves obliterate communism. “The problems of South Vietnam can only be solved by the social and economic

advances which will make the unhappy people of this area not the pawns in a nuclear war game but partners with

one another and with the rest of humanity in a march towards human progress and human dignity,” he said.