NATIONAL PARTY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 13092, 13 February 1937, Page 7

NATIONAL PARTY

FRAMING OF POLICY INTERESTS OF FARMERS. AND BUSINESSMEN (MINIMUM OF STATE CONTROL ‘Press Association) AA’ELLINGTON. Feb. 12 “A policy mutually satisfactory to tho Farmers’ Unions in the country aml ,o.cambers of Commerce in the towns is the aim o: the New Zealand National Party”, said the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. A. Hamilton, at a, meeting of the Dominion council of the party yesterday. The main principle for which the party stood was to- hold to whatever was gjood in the past and to progress, with care and prudence, to, preserve the liberty of the subject, and stand for the utmost freedom of the individual with tho minimum of State control and interference. The shaping of the policy would he difficult.

Broad tolerance in face of the common danger of confiscatory and bu-reau-tic government was essential. He was determined to weld all the groups representing the more responsible vote of town and country into one party. It was the duty of the National Party to oppose the Government because the Labor vote was not best qualified by experience, ability, or responsibility to meet the needs of the country and must inevitably lend to di tress. Judgment, reason, and justice must temper the sympathy and sentiment by which the Labor legislation of the past session ‘was wholly dominated. Mr C. IT. Weston, was elected as president. Progress in the party organisation w,as reported and finance organisation was also considered.