MR BAIN'S CAMPAIGN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 268, 14 November 1935, Page 6

MR BAIN'S CAMPAIGN

MEETING AT ST. JOHN’S A SOUND GOVERNMENT WHICH DID ITS DUTY Mr N. R. Bain, National Government candidate for Wanganui, continued his campaign last evening by addressing the electors on St. John’s Hill. The building*-was well filled, the candidate being afforded a most attenttive hearing. Interjectors and questioners were •conspicuous by their absence. Mr J. Williams presided. “I must say,” stated Mr Bain, “that I find it quite a pleasure fo be addressing an audience so near to home, after speaking night and day in every part of the electorate. One is not surprised to find some difficulty presenting itself in the conducting ot this campaign. I am accustomed to speaking on trairu>|l lines, where the essentials only are dealt with and immaterial matters are disregarded. I find, however, that because of statements constantly being made by my opponents 1 have to bo continuously flogging matters which really do not count —that is what I may describe as tho ‘Red Herring’ drawn across the track.” Air N. R. Bain then outlined the tremendous crisis that the country faced in .1931 owing to world wide conditions and, in particular, the falling of prices’ in relation to our primary products. He continued by pointing out, in a simple and effective manner, the various steps taken by the Government to bridge the gap between the depleted national income and fixed charges, firstly in the formation of a National Government and then by the introduction of emergency legislation upon lines that had been tried, proved, and recommended in other •countries. Mr Bain pointed out that much was said by his political opponents to derate the improvement that had resulted but, said Mr Bain, “I defy any of my political opponents to say any country has made progress of recovery except on lines our country has adopted.” “The opposition all try to tell us we have progressed along the wrong lines. If we have been proceeding along wrong lines why, during the past years, have we not found things steadily getting worse and worse? In the alternative, I submit that, on the facts, as they stand you will find conditions slowly but surely improving. I will not say the Government are responsible tor the increase in prices for our primary produce, but at all events they have kept lhe country on an even keel, and because I recognise that I am here to support the Government.” Mr Bain then outlined the policy of his political opponents and dealt with some of the criticism launched by Air Hislop, Air Veitch and the Herald against the Government. The candidate presented the present record of performance accomplished by the Government in contrast with the impracticable and impossible put forward by his opponents, many of whivh he definitely stated had not been defined by even those who propounded . them.

The Government is comprised of men with political experience and they know what the Budget of the country will permit them to do and they are not out to entice the electors with promises which they know can not and will never bo fulfilled,” said Air Bain. I urgo you to carefully weigh t’ua tremendous issues and to consider the responsibility thrvt you owe to the future and in the light of these facts not. to attempt to take any short cuts to prosperiy. I look upon such futile policies as dangerous and frought with disaster to the’community.” On the motion of Air A. E. Rankin, the speaker was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.