ELECTORS' CHOICE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 123, 20 November 1935, Page 18

ELECTORS' CHOICE

POLICIES, NOT CANDIDATES

There was an attendance of about 35 in the Day's Bay pavilion last evening, when Mr. V. E. Jacobson, Nationalist candidate for the Hutt seat, delivered an address. Mr. W. E. Butler was in the chair.

Mr. Jacobson said that the Nationalist Party's programme provided for the building up of landing grounds all over New Zealand. Another point was that the standard of our produce must be kept up. The League of Nations, he said, must come up for review in a time like this. It had failed in many ways but had also had many successes. Yet it represented the one feasible way of stopping wars. He had been asked by a representative gathering to stand for the seat, said Mr. Jacobson, and his policy was to serve the country and his fellow-men in the best possible way. The leaders of the National Party had thrown away personal popularity in order to serve the country, and if they had been big enough to do this in times of need they should be given the opportunity of putting their social service policy into effect when conditions had improved. The Government had supported schemes of development in the Hutt Valley and Eastbourne. There were definite indications that if a stable Government were returned new industries would come to the Hutt Valley and so assist employment. He thought the Wainui tunnel should be pushed through. The choice was not between candidates but between policies. All over the world Labour Governmentes had failed, and New Zealand should follow Britain's lead and return a National Government. There was one thing he did not like about the Labour Party. It was invited to join the Coalition but did not do so. The leaders of the Labour Party went on tour, and wherever they spoke riots occurred. The Labour Party changed its policy as a bait to electors, and its policy of inflation had failed wherever it was tried.

A vote of thanks and confidence was carried.