NATIONAL REASONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1938, Page 22

NATIONAL REASONS

BIR. MAZENGARB'S 15

WHY HE IS STANDING

' Punctuated by frequent bursts of applause and cheering, the address delivered by Mr. O. C. Mazengarb, National candidate for Wellington Suburbs, at Khandallah, last night, was listened to with close attention by an audience • that filled the public hall. There were no interruptions, Mr. W. A. Veitch presided.

Summing up his conclusions at the end of his speech, Mr. Mazengarb gave the following fifteen reasons for his candidature as a Nationalist:—

1. Because I am opposed to Socialism and its big brother Communism.

2. Because I am appalled at the ruinous doctrines set out in the Socialist literature of which Mr. J. A. Lee's book is a sample.

3. Because wage earners do not want to be caught in one big Socialist net and commanded to do the bidding of State bosses and not allowed to follow the path of common sense.

4. Because the policy ot the present Government is to inflate the currency of the country, and wherever inflation has been tried it has brought misery and discontent to the salaried and wage-earning classes.

5. Because we want to give all parents an opportunity of owning a place in which their children may be brought up and may regard with affection as "home."

6. Because civil servants should not be compelled to pay into two superannuation funds and receive benefits from only one.

7. Because women who work for wages should be relieved of all future obligation to pay into an unemployment fund from which they can get no assistance.

8. Because Dr. McMillan does not know how to promote the health of the community better than 900 other doctors, most of whom are more highly qualified and more experienced than he is.

9. Because we are not going to import doctors from abroad to do a job that our own doctors are willing to do without compulsion.

10. Because we will arrange for a full health service for all the people in tlie community who need it and not a mere partial service for everyone whether it is wanted or not

11. Because we will not allow the radio to be used as a medium for unfair party propaganda or for politics disguised as religion.

12. Because we will put a stop to the oppressive use of the microphone for broadcasting abusive and defamatory attacks on private citizens from inside Parliament or out of it.

13. Because we must put an end to the attempt to divide the community into two classes and to set those classes at perpetual warfare the one with the other.

14. Because we are desirous of preserving in this country the best traditions of our race—freedom of opportunity for ourselves and our sons and the privilege of providing for one's own family both during a man's lifetime and after his death.

15. Because here in New Zealand we have the capital, the labour, and the ability to solve our own problems, to relieve us from tlie pressing emergencies of unemployment and to develop under the Southern Cross, with the good will of Great Britain, a Dominion of which we may be all proud—takine ever as our watchword "Forward New Zealand."

At the conclusion of the address a vote was passed by acclamation on the motion of Mr. A. D. Goodwin thanking Mr. Mazengarb "for his clear exposition of the real issue before, the electors on Saturday—Socialism versus Nationalism," expressing confidence in the National Party, in Mr. Hamilton as Leader, and in Mr. Mazengarb as candidate for Wellington Suburbs.