WELLINGTON SOUTH

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 73, 23 September 1938, Page 6

WELLINGTON SOUTH

THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN

Mr. D. P. Howlett, the National candidate for Wellington South, addressed about 100 women yesterday afternoon at the Masonic Hall, Island Bay.

In dealing with the National Party policy. Mr. Howlett pointed out that

this is the first time in New Zealand's political history that the ordinary people had been able to make their own contribution to the selection of their Parliamentary candidate and the policy of their party. The idea behind the National Party was to continue a permanent organisation which would be in the hands of' its members themselves. As a result, the policy of the party, issued a couple of days ago by the Hon. Adam Hamilton, was the most democratic one in existence. "We will govern for the people as a whole and not for any particular section," he said. "Those of you who have seen the policy will no doubt realise that our ideal is to make New Zealand a nation of home-builders. Our first and most important job is to get all our workers back into good jobs and provide working hours, wages, and conditions which will give them the standard of living they are entitled to. We will then see that our people are provided with good homes. We will encourage people to own their own homes, and will give preference to those people who are living in uncomfortable circumstances."