WELLINGTON EAST

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

WELLINGTON EAST

Mr. L. T. Jacobsen, National Party candidate for Wellington East, addressed a large audience of women in the Taia Hall at Kilbirnie yesterday afternoon. Remarking that under the Labour Government the people's rights and privileges had been dangerously interfered with and their freedom taken from them, the candidate added: "Fortunately for us, they have not yet deprived us* of our constitutional rights as citizens to hold an election each three years, and on the twenty-fifth of this month we will safeguard our own position and the future of our posterity by putting them out of power." Mr. Jacobsen addressed an attentive audience, in Miramar last night, when he enlarged on the National Party's policy provision for State tenants to acquire the freehold of the houses they occupied without them paying any more weekly than they now paid in rent. No State tenant would be turned out of his house if he was not prepared to buy the freehold. Mr. Jacobsen also stressed the importance of the National Party's policy of freedom for members- of Parliament to vote according to their conscience and not with the party against their better judgment. The critics of this new freedom, enjoyed only by National Party members, showed their ignorance when they claimed that it was not possible. Only under such a system, he said, would constituents get the best representation.