NATIONAL PARTY

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 265, 5 August 1937, Page 10

NATIONAL PARTY

Campaign in Electorates and Parliament RIGHTS ’OF INDIVIDUALS “The National Barty is truly national in character, representing the whole of the community as distinct from sectional or class interests,’’ said tlie leader of the party, Hon. Adam Hamilton, in a statement made yesterday on his return to Wellington from the Manawatu. Mr. Hamilton said that the recent meetings of the executive and the Parliamentary section of the party had been most successful, and reports from all over the Dominion were most encouraging. The large increase in membership of the party in the electorates was due to the keen interest taken by all in politics to-day, the general public being harassed and apprehensive. The unrest had not been alleviated by the return of the Prime Minister, whose published inference that exchange would be altered did not help either farmers or business men to, put their businesses on a sound basis. “A general plan of campaign. was prepared for the electorates and for the House during the coming session,” said Mr. Hamilton. “Apart from a critical examination ■of the Labour Party’s policy,: it will be made clear that the National Party stands for the maintenance of our democratic system as opposed to both Fascism or Communism. “We are truly national in character, representing the whole of the community, as distinct from sectional or class interests; we will preserve the utmost freedom for individuality and initiative, as distinct from State and Ministerial domination; we will preserve the traditional rights of our British people to have justice administered by our courts of law, as distinct from the present practice of Ministers usurping these functions.” Asked when the annual conference of the party Would be held, at which, it is understood, the policy of the party will be announced, Mr. Hamilton said that the conference would meet shortly after the assembling of Parliament.