THE HAPPY MEAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 67, 16 September 1943, Page 7

THE HAPPY MEAN

ENOUGH OF EXTREMES

New Zealand had had more than enough of extremes, declared Mr. W. A. Veitch, Nationalist candidate for Wellington Suburbs, when speaking at Kaiwarra last night., The Nationalists, he would admit had in the past been too extreme in their conservatism, and during the last few years the country had had a full dose of extreme radicalism. What was now needed was the mean between the two, and the Nationalist Party's programme offered that mean. It was the only opposition party which offered the prospect of the change which the country needed; none of the other parties if elected had the necessary Parliamentary experience. The home and the people were the principles the Nationalists stood for. While admitting that Labour had done some good things, the. Nationalists were poles apart from them in method and joined issue with them on their State dictatorship and control in its severe and destructive forms. It was time that Parliament was restored to its proper function, instead of having legislation arranged beforehand in secret, approved in secret by caucus, and then put through Parliament merely as a matter of routine. The Nationalists stood for a policy of stability and progression, and were determined to end the present virulent class warfare and restore free enterprise.

The meeting was attended by about 30, and the candidate was accorded a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence.