NEW ZEALAND POLITICS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10956, 19 July 1921, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND POLITICS

THE NEW PARTY. CAMPAIGN To'obMM-ENCE IN AUGUST. . ■ It is said 1 , that a good deal of preliminary work has been accomplished in preparation for the launching of a public campaign in connection with tho new political party, the National. Progressive, and Moderate Labour Party* A meeting of the party is advertised to take place in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall on Thursday night. This will not be a public meeting, and is open only to members and friends who have received invitations. Messrs (J. E. Statham, M.P., the leader of the party: E. Kellett, M.P., of the Dunedin District Council; J. S. Douglas, Mayor of Dunedin; G. H. Foster, president of the Auckland District. Council; and W. P. Black, editor of the “New Zealand National Review,” will be the principal speakers, and will set forth the aims and objects of the party. A Dominion conference will be held in Wellington on August 23rd, when, the chief business will be the making of a decision as to how many seats will be contested at the' next general election—roughly, it is expected that these will number between, sixty and sixty-five. Following this conference the party will come into the full light of publicity by holding, in the Willington Town Hall, a meeting open to all. , \ A similar meeting will -bd held in Auckland on August.29th, and this will be followed by addresses at Christchurch and Dunedin, and, later, other main centres. In the meantime the party is limiting its activities to the forming of district Councils in the different centres, and in this it claims to have been entirely successful. Permanent offices havq been opened in Wellington, Auckland, and Dunedin, and shortly an office will be opened 1 in Christchurch. Following, in skeleton form/ is the programme' to be elaborated by the speakers at the public meeting in August Political.—(l) an elective executive. (2) Reform of the Upper House. State Ownership.—(3) State Bank, with sole right of issue. Education. —(4) Free education from primary school to university. (5) Free and standardised school books. (6) Midday meals at small cost. Industrial Efficiency.—(7) Genera] superannuation scheme for all, irrespective of income. (8) Increased pensions to widows, blind, and incapacitated. (9) Closer 00-operation between employer and worker. (10) Payments by results. (11) Increased production. (12) Strikes and lockouts to be made illegal. (13) Compulsory arbitration in all industrial disputes. State Aid to Industry.—(l4) Tlie development of the hydro-electric power for all industrial and other purposes. (15) State aid to young industries. Social.—(l6) A State medical service. (17) State nurses. (18) Fl-«te maternity homes. (19) A comprehensive housing scheme for workers. Land Settlement.—(2o) A comprehensive soheme of land settlement! (21) An efficient railway and roads policy. (22) Agricultural colleges. (23) Classified immigration policy. - Efficiency.—(24) Reform of the Civil Service. . -