A COMPLEX ISSUE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 22

A COMPLEX ISSUE

VALUE OF INDEPENDENTS

The value of Independents in the House of Representatives was stressed by Mr. R. A. Wright, Independent candidate for Wellington Suburbs, speaking at Northland last evening. Mr. F. Cassin presided.

Mr. Wright said that at this election many people would weigh up each candidate's merits and decide which candidate was the man they could trust to represent them. Mori votes would be cast this election on the merits of the individual candidates. Defining his attitude in the House, Mr. Wright said that he would be prepared to support any measure of a beneficial nature, but he would not support sectional interests. "That was the reason why I broke away from the | party I had supported for so many years," he said. Taking the whole of New Zealand, he did not think there was any man or woman who could foretell with any degree of accuracy what wouia happen on November 27. The position was confused and complex, and many electors would vote for a particular man, regardless of what party he might belong to. It was desirable that men in whom the electors had confidence should be returned to Parliament. The present was no time in which to try experiments, because the country was not yet "out of the wood," and men were wanted who, in any emergency in the House, would not vote to bring about a state of political chaos. "We want a Government which will have the confidence of the people," he said.

At the conclusion of his address, on the motion of Mr. T. Allwood, seconded by Mr. D. R. Haase, a vote of confidence in Mr. Wright was carried unanimously.