NATIONAL PARTY
CONFIDENT OF FUTURE
O.C. WANGANUI, March 14. Addressing the annual meeting of the Marton branch of the New Zealand National Party, Mr. E. B. Gordon, M.P. for Rangitikei, said that the party's slogan was "Forty-six seats in 1946!"
"We are looking forward to next year's election confident that the Opposition will form a Government," he said. At present the Government was not governing the country, he added, and conditions underneath were chaotic. Everything seemed subject to licence and control. He paid a tribute to the leadership of the Opposition by Mr. S. G. Holland, and said that the Opposition had been vastly strengthened as a debating team and had made a good showing in the House since the last election.
The committee of the Taihape branch of the National Party carried a motion expressing confidence in Mr. Holland as leader and approving of his action in supporting the Labour Party in increasing the honoraria of members of Parliament. This pledge, the committee pointed out, was in the party's platform at the 1943 General Election.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 63, 15 March 1945, Page 4
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