CITIZENS NOT PARTY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 124, 26 May 1944, Page 4

CITIZENS NOT PARTY

REPLY TO CR. SCOTT “BANGING POLITICAL DRUM" “Mr. J. J. Scott claims to have secured from Blenheim a circular on which he bases his contention that the Citizens' Committee and the National Party are one and the same," said Mr. H. C. Jenkins, Citizens' candidate lor the Wanganui- - Rangitikei Electric Power Board, at the Opera House last night. "He has had to go a long way from home to get this evidence of conditions in Wanganui," Mr Jenkins continued. "I am a member of the National Party and am very proud of my standing with that party, ft is a good warty and it is not dominated by backdoor influences: nor, when it goes into office after the next elections, will it back down to the larger trades unions and prosecute the members of the smaller unions, f am also a member of the Citizens’ Committee, and a veiy good committee it is. too. I; is so good that it is giving Mr. Scott anti his friends the devil of a fright, ?nn they expect to lose I he mayoralty and the Citv Council control. “Faced with this situation, Mr. S ott has sought to rally his waning support by banging the political drum, j [ onlv hope that he goes on doing so; .n't if he will examine the constitution I of the National Party he' will tin I that i the National Party, as such, does not --ke part ir. muni •■’spa 1 politics. “My taking part with the Citizens' Cem-.miti.ee in this campaign does net lorn that body \ I > 11k. National Party :-.ny more than my allegiance to a club or a church turns that institution into a part o( the National Party. In the Citizens’ group there are men of every shade of political opinion, and of none. I “We are united, not in national I political aims, but in the desire to see ' that th.-- citv is well run without outside considerations entering rito municipal affairs."