THE NEXT ELECTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 242, 13 October 1936, Page 8

THE NEXT ELECTION

I Issue of Private Ownership NATIONAL PARTY PREPARING [ Per I’resi Association. ] MASTERTON, Oct. 12. At a meeting of supporters of the National Party, Mr. C. H. Weston, chairman of the Dominion executive, said that the country was awakening to the fact that a revolution was being staged by the present Government. Cabinet meant to foist upon New Zealand some such system of living as Russia had attempted and only recently abandoned. All private ownership would ultimately go. According to the Government plan all businesses and occupations would eventually be controlled by Cabinet Ministers and civil servants. Did this mean greater efficiency and production? Could the Minister and civil servants give that lifelong education and experience that any successful business required? The real issue before the electors in 1938 would be whether New Zealand would revert to the communal system of the Maoris by which everything was pooled, or adhere to the individualistic system. Extra pensions, higher wages and shorter working hours were not in the issue. Every party wished to give them as far as the national purse would allow, and it was only a question of ways and means. The National Party must see that the real issue was put before the electors and organisation and continuity of organisation were required. Mr. Weston appealed to National supporters all over the Dominion to find the necessary funds to ensure a continuance of their own machine.