DIVIDENDLESS DOUGLASITES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 11

DIVIDENDLESS DOUGLASITES

(To the Editor of tho Herald.) Sir. —Some four months ago, I questioned, via your columns, tho position of organisations, professedly followers of Douglas, who refused to endorse tho payment of the national dividend. My attitude was hotly resented Ivy the local district council through their secretary, who spoke of people who wanted something for nothing. At the present time tho district council is circularising numbers of the public asking for money, of course, but also for co-operation in pushing the electoral campaign. Paragraph 3 of this reads-: “I want, too, national dividends distributed to mo and every Prltou so that we can buy all we want of the goods now destroyed and the production that is. restricted.” Paragraph 6 roads: “So 1 pledge myself to vote for any candidate who will undertake to support, the abolition of poverty and the issue of national dividends and to vote, against any party trying to put any other law-making 1 info re this.”

In view of those two paragraphs it, looks as though the. district, council have got, themselves into a hopeless muddle. Can it- he that the coming visit, of the Dean of Canterbury and Earl Tankervillo have- anything to do with this sudden volte face? The electoral campaign has keen mi for nearly two years and the district council has so far maintained n discreet silence, l'ot.h the dean and the car! are coming to forward the electoral campaign, and the district council would fiiid it hard to preach against the dividend and at the same time bask in the reflected glory so dear to their type. Before any of the public . subscribe, 1 would advise them to find out. where the district council stands and wimm they now represent, especially since Douglas has just ordered an Australian organisation, which diverted from his directions, to drop the name Donglas.—Vours, etc.,

DIVIDENDS FOP ALL.