THE NATIONAL PARTY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22108, 14 May 1935, Page 13

THE NATIONAL PARTY

Sir, —Your clear statement of the need for a living principle to replace the objeotives vaguely formulated by our present political leaders strikes at the root of public dissatisfaction with the existing order. I venture to express the view that the results of our civici elections indicate not only what can bo achieved by organisation, essential as that is, but a deep seated distrust engendered in the hearts and minds of a section of the people because the position they find themselves in to-day in this country calls for an explanation and a remedy. Our party has explained nothing to them and has offered them nothing tangible and constructive. There is an explanation and it should be made and the solution bo plainly stated. I submit that it is wiser to face facts and set our house in order, hard though it be, than to bury our heads in the sand and await the maelstrom of retribution. Unless this be dono I and hundreds of my friends and acquaintances will find ourselves incapable of assisting the new organisation, and will perforce be driven to the support of a minority group activated by the determination to fight for what it believes to be its national right. E. B. Gunson.