Labour Party’s Future
Addressing the Oamaru branch of the Labour Party, the Minister of Health (Mr Nordmeyer) said that a section of the community liked to think that the Labour Party had no future. This was entirely wrong: large and important things had been done in the past, but the Labour Party was destined to play an even greater part in the near future. There were bound to be differences of opinion in any organisation, but no side issues, however, should be allowed to interfere with the cause the Labour Party stood for. The only alternative to Socialism was Fascism. New Zealand was destined to play a vital part in the worjd’s economic, social, and political progress. They could not prosper on a purely materialistic basis. The spirit of idealism must be revised.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 68, Issue 5945, 19 May 1944, Page 3
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