PLANS OF NATIONAL PARTY

Southland Times, Issue 25505, 27 October 1944, Page 4

PLANS OF NATIONAL PARTY

List Of Things That Will

Not Be Done

A list of the things the National Party would not do “when they became the Government in two years’ time” was given by Mr K. J. Holyoake, when speaking in support of the National candidate in the Awarua by-election at Winton last night. Mr Holyoake said that they would not allow Parliament to be dominated by the Trades Hall or any other hall. They would not cut pensions; they would not cut wages; they would not permit compulsory contributions from union subscriptions to political organizations; they would not appoint trade union secretaries to every high post in the country. They would not keep lowering the value of money and raising costs, said Mr Holyoake. They would not exempt Ministers of the Crown from income tax, supply produce and Lease-Lend at 1938 prices and buy at 1942 prices, send all defeated candidates as foreign ambassadors, grant bursaries to military defaulters, rob the wool growers of al5 per cent, increase in price or transfer moneys from produce accounts to the War Expenses Account. They

would not rob the people of their individual freedom.

“When we become the Government in two years’ time we will immediately set out to give the people the maximum amount of freedom,” said Mr Holyoake. “In recent years their freedom has been speedily whittled down.”