THE COUNTRY PARTY.
Sir, —Is one permitted to ask: (1) What are the aspirations of the Country Party ! (2) Is the decision of its executive to select a candidate to contest the Waikato electorate of any benefit to the community? Maybe ' the suspicion is undeserved, yet there are people who suspect the Country Party of being able ot'see one side only of any subject, and that side, the farmers' side. Supposing the Country Party has a scheme for perfecting conditions of life and government, calculated to make citizenship of this Dominion more desirable than life in an improved and modern Utopia, is the Country Party popular enough, is it strong enough, to assure even one of its supporters being returned to Parliament ? Diffidently, I suggest that if the Country Party has threshed out a solution of but one national, as apart from solely a farmer's, problem, could it not be altruistic and arrange that such a solution became one of the points of policy of a party with not such a partisan appeal as is indicated by the title, "Country Party." C. WoKRINGHAH HARTE.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19892, 10 March 1928, Page 14
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184THE COUNTRY PARTY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19892, 10 March 1928, Page 14
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