SIGNS OF CHANGE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 127, 30 May 1944, Page 5

SIGNS OF CHANGE

OPPOSITION LEADER’S ELECTION COMMENT PREPARATION MUST BE MADK FOR FUTURE. (P.A.) Christchurch, May 29. | "The results of the municipal elections speak eloquently for themselves,” said the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Holland, in an address to the annual meeting of the Avon branch of the National Party this evening. “Of course the National Party is not entitled to claim credit for the result, but we cannot be blamed for taking notice of them, as they demonstrate a remarkable swing in public opinion, which is a development that was shown in the general election. We must be careful not to allow ourselves to be carried away by this clear indication of coming changes. “Wherever I have been I have detected unmistakable indications of a change In public opinion, and Saturday’s voting strengthened my previously expressed view that, after the next general election, the National 'Party will be called upon to form a Government. That nrospect should impress on us the vital need of preparing ourselves for that great responsibility. “We must always remember that it is not just office we are seeking. That would indeed he but an empty aim. We merely seen office as a means to an end, and that end is the good wa can do in the interests of the public we seek to serve. “We have two and a half years in ■which to complete our preparations, and not. a day. not. an hour, must be lost, in our urgent t.p>k of preparing ourselves for the greai opportunity of government.”