DEMOCRAT PARTY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 111, 6 November 1935, Page 14

DEMOCRAT PARTY

MR. DUNCAN AT HATAITAI

Claiming that the Democrat Party's policy was the only constructive policy yet advanced, Mr. W. Duncan, Democrat candidate for Wellington' East, addressed a meeting of 30 electors in the Realm Hall, Hataitai, last night. Mr. R. R. Scott occupied the chair.

New Zealand, he contended, had come to the political crossroads, and it was for the people to say whether they would continue on as they had during the past four years, without a ray of hope, or whether they would take the Democrats' path to prosperity. The Government had placed taxes on goods coming into the country and on goods going out. of the country, as indicated by the exchange, sales tax, and gold tax. He charged the Government with offering a sop to electors in the shape of the recent restorations of salaries and pensions.

The candidate criticised the Labour Party's policy, and said he had never heard members of that party protesting against the hoarding of the unemployment money. He condemned the raiding of the' Highways Fund by the Government during the last "three years, and said that the Democrat policy was to preserve that fund intact and to use it for the purpose for which it was collected.

A vote of thanks and confidence was passed