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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 26 August 1935, Page 5

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DEMOCRAT LEADER Mr. T. C. Hislop Chosen, With Mr. W. A. Veitch, M.P., Deputy OUTLINE OF PLATFORM MAJOR POINTS ANNOUNCED V . • ; . ; •' V• ; t.By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, To-day. Ah official report of the Democrat conference was issued to-day. Mr T. C. A. Hislop, Mayor of Wellington, was elected leader, and it was decided to have a deputy-leader in each island. Mr W. A- Veitch, M.P., of Wanganui, was appointed for the North Island. The South Island appointment wn|s postponed. •> Tli© conference is stated to have been marked by absolute loyalty and enthusiasm on the part of all candidates. The question of the publication of the. names of candidates was left in the hands of the divisional executives.

Mr Hislop, as leader, to-day issued a statement outlining tiie main point* of the party’s policy and intimating that he would enlarge on various points from the public platform. The party’s platform had been arrived at with due regard to the economic conditions of the country. They avoided both parsimony and extravagance. The major points were: Allowing the exchange to Teach -a. true economic relation with sterling. The assistance of farmers with less injury to relations with the .Mother Country and as between town. and country. To afford a temporary mortgage relief without involving confiscation of capital or equities. To remove , the sales tax and gold duty. There was a definite scheme to return all fit men to their normal occupations at normal wages and to meet the long deferred and just claims of returned soldiers. . .... Other points referred to hospital insurance and pensions, a scheme of local body and Government reform, the protection-and encouragement ot maufaeturing industries upon the principle of balances, national economy, a more practical education scheme" along useful lines. General o-ood would be the supreme aim, and the party believed in an equal, not partial, sharing of the burden of troubled times and the fruits of - ultimate prosperity.