WHY INDEPENDENCE
Explaining his reasons for standing as an Independent, Mr. W. Appleton, candidate for Otaki, when speaking at Otaki on Friday evening, said that it was obvious from recent comments that the party leaders wished to impose ori their followers rigid and undeviating party discipline, which would submerge.all expression of personal conviction as to what ■ was ■ best for the country. That policy, said the speaker, was also the doctrine of the Socialist Party, wlu'ch required its members to submit in all things to the party vote. He said he would not agree to a policy whereby a member of Parliament was merely.a registering machine to "frank" whatever the Government cared to propose, and had' he been in the House during the last session he would have had to express his independence in similar fashion to what others had done. . '
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 4
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WHY INDEPENDENCE
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 4
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