DOUGLAS CREDIT SYSTEM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 254, 24 September 1935, Page 6

DOUGLAS CREDIT SYSTEM.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —We shall bo pleased if you will grant -us space in your columns to refute the correctness of the statement made by the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) to the Press recently, in which he said “that his attention had been drawn to Press telegrams from overseas indicating that Alberta and New Zealand were engaged in a race as to which would be first to-put into application the theories of the Douglas Credit System.” The Press cable (not telegram) referred to by the Prime Minister, as published by the leading papers of the Dominion, read as follows: —“The Dean of Canterbury (the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson), alio arrived to-day (New Yhrk), said that the social credit movement was beginning a tremendous religious war against poverty with Canada and New Zealand running a close race to be first to adopt the programme.” There was no mention made of any race between New Zealand and Alberta, as asserted by the Prime Minister. Had he made due enquiries before making such a statement, lie would have discovered the iact that a Social Credit Government was elected in Alberta on Anigust 22, by the large majority of 54 in a Parliament comprising 63 seats. The race between Canada and New Zealand is now in progress, and as an indication of the pace that is being set in this Dominion, the Prime Minister might take note of the Press reports of the Douglas Social Credit rally, held at Palmerston North two weeks ago, when it was pointed out that there was an attendance of no less than 430 delegates from branches of the movement situated in the Wellington and Taranaki districts only. As there are at present 307 branches spread over the Dominion, the words of the prime Minister “that Douglas Credit theories are supported by a very small number in New Zealand” will be “wasted on the desert air.” —We aie, etc..

THE DOUGLAS SOCIAL CREDIT MOVEMENT OF N.Z. (Incorporated.) Wellington, September 23.