WELFARE OF DOMINION

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1933, Page 2

WELFARE OF DOMINION

NON-PARTY MOVEMENT. RETURNED SOLDIER’S PLAN. At a meeting of 200 members of the Eden-Roskill Ex-Servicemen’s Club, the president, Mr. L. A. Tozer, announced that next year machinery would be put into operation to form a platform for returned soldiers in the affairs of the country. The platform would be nonparty, and influence would be exerted against political candidates who would not agree to the principles The platform, it had to be borne in mind, would not contain any contentious matter, but it would make humanity the first consideration for the national welfare of New Zealand.

Mr. Tozer said the belief was that finance would in future be the servant of the people and not the master. Wealth, he said, had yet to make a considerable sacrifice for the welfare of the coming generation. Every man had a first duty to his children to see that the existing conditions were eliminated and that the generation of the future would be mentally and physically equipped to play a noble part in the history of the race. The platform would be wide in scope and would extend throughout the Dominion. The fare of the people demanded justice and the support of every soldier and civilian would be sought