AN INDEPENDENT LIBERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22261, 8 November 1935, Page 13

AN INDEPENDENT LIBERAL

HUMANITY AND ECONOMICS V MR. C. W. H. PICKERING'S VIEWS Douglas Credit, Socrates and Sir Basil Zaharoff were among the topics and personages discussed by Mr. C. W. H. Pickering, Independent-Liberal candidate for Eden, opening his campaign last night in the Centenary Hall, Dominion Road. Mr. T. McNab, Mayor of Mount Eden, presided over a small attendance. The candidate explained that he was standing as a Liberal because he considered all the Christian and humane legislation in New Zealand was introduced in the time of Ballance, Ward and Seddon, and as an independent because of the defects of the party system. Vast sums, he said, were provided for party funds, but obviously not for a philanthropical purpose. He considered that New Zealand would be firmly under the heel of a "money power dictatorship" unless the new Parliament brought in a system of Christian economics. In his view there was no such thing as an inexorable econoipic law and what was physically possible was financially possible. It should be asked concerning a bill before Parliament whether it was morally right, and then whether it was for the good of the people. ,< Mr. Pickering went at some length to describo activities by international financiers, and he said the only two Governments 'which had escaped their control were those of Japan and Ethiopia. Thai; was one reason, he thougnt, for the efforts to induce hatred of Japan. Until the people of New Zealand got the control of credit into their hands they would be powerless and, for that matter, so would any party. Douglas Credit, however, would be a practical application of the teachings of Christ. A vote of thanks and confidence was carried.