“TORY” CONTROL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 509, 12 November 1928, Page 13

“TORY” CONTROL

HISTORY REPEATED Apologising for speaking from “soap box” and thereby seeming to place himself on a pinnacle, Mr. R. IL. Greville, United candidate fur Wait - mata, spoke at King’s Store. Nort.i Devonport, on Saturday everung. Mr. B. Smith, president of the Not ill Devonport Ratepayers’ Association, explained that his organisation had invited the three candidates for the electorate to present their views <3 opportunity offered. Mr. Greville declared that the existence of depression, unemployment, soup kitchens and doss houses under the existing Tory administration was merely history repeating itself: when the Tories were last in power the same state of things was brought about. The United Party, which had as leader the only statesman in Parliament, could, and would remedy the condition of the great mass of the people. Sir Joseph, was the last of the old Liberal giants and the criticism that he was too old. was merely based on chagrined fear of the Tories. A Voice: He is too old in the head for them. Tho Tory Tarty had changed its name and' now* sought to jibe at the United Party for keeping up with tho times; 90 per cent of the United candidates were pledged to vote against tho Government. His party had a definite policy of progress. That gri at base of all forward movement. tho State Advances Office, had be* n put in by the Liberals and though over £41,000,000 had been lent it had not cost the Dominion a penny, and tho new plan for further development along the same lines would not cost the country a penny either. The group system of land purchase and tho training of lads as farmers, as embodied in the United policy, was elaborated and land settlement characterised as the most essential factor in bringing prosperity and removing tho menace of unemployment; the development of the railways was parr of the land development plans. Other aspects of the political situation were examined and a vote of thanks and confidence was accorded the candidate who had earlier in the afternoon visited the East Coast bays, where he was well received.