Preparing For Next Election

Northern Advocate, 12 March 1948, Page 4

Preparing For Next Election

WELLINGTON, Fri. (Sp.).— “The political pulse is beginning to quicken as wc draw up to the half-way mark to the next general election,’’ said the president (Mr W. J. Sim. K.C.) at a meeting of the Dominion Council ol the National Party, which began in Wellington yesterday. | The meeting is being continued to- j day. Mr Sim referred to the progress I made by the party in the Westland byelection. | He said that a well-organised and vigorous campaign had led to a very satisfactory result. The spirit of unity in the party was; probably the envy of its political op-1 ponents. i Mr Holland and his colleagues' could be assured of the party’s solid support and loyalty in the fight that was coming this year and the next, j DEFEAT OF COMMUNISM Measures for the defeat and suppres-' lion of Communists and Communism in New Zealand would have the full support of the National Party. j Nevertheless, there was no overlook- 1 ing the fact that the fundamental Com- 1 munist doctrine—namely the socialisa- j tion of the means of production, dis-j tribution and exchange—had not yet j been renounced by the present Gov- j eminent. j The leader of the National Party, j (Mr Holland! said that the Govern-j ment had no lack of warnings during, the past that “if you do not control j the Communists, they will control. you.” I

It was only now beginning to heed those warnings.