NATIONAL PARTY

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 275, 26 November 1935, Page 2

NATIONAL PARTY

Prime Minister’s Appeal FABRIC OF SOUND FINANCE THREATENED BY LABOUR v - ■' (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. The Prime Mi'misiteJr, the Bit. Hon. G. AV. Forbes, has issued the following message to the electors of New Zealand: “On (the eve of the most momentous' poll New Zealand has ever known, I desire, as Prime Minister, with a full knowledge of national! conditions and naitional responsibilities, to submit (a special message rtlo all the electors throughout the Dominion. '“Grave political circumstances demand .the issue of a clear warning. Nott on(B] is it necessary fob every elector to .go to the poll, "But it ,i ( s essential’ iflhia.t each' elector should consider the serious consequences of a vote. For the first time in New Zealand! experience the whole fabric of sound finance and national prudence, for which the Dominion has a high rejijuitmtiion, is threatened by the policy of the Labour Party and disruptive forces behind it. This is in. no .sense a fanciful .inJtterpretation of a situation merely for the purpose of gaining votes for the National Government. Tt has been made plain by a responsible member of the Labour Party.

Not Given to Hysteria

‘ ‘As most) people must know by this time, I have nevetr been given to political hysteria or silly exaggeration, and it is only after a plain recognition of the ptarniest facts that I am compelled to remind the electors that the representatives of tfhe Labour Party itself have eripo-sed a national peril in its iinancial programme rind .admitaistrati*ve intentions. It is possible that' many electo>rs may, not have read the report of the candid statement! by Mr J. W. Munro, Labour candidate for Dunedih North at Dunedin last Thursday night, wheini he was reported as having said 'if we can’t carry out our jptolicy wfei will Igo to the electors and get a mandate to do it, and iif we can not do it then the only tiling to do will be to get out and smash things.’

I “That in itself shows that Labour 'realiseiS ttfialtf it could not cany out its policy without a punitive force, but there is into necessity for any argument about the true meaning’ o’f ithiaitl threat, which it ought t'o bo noited was intensified by other violent threats about putting resisting persons into gaol and feeding them on bread and water. “It goes without saying itihat levelheaded New Zealanders will Wot be .intimidated, but that they should flake the beslf) and quickest method of 1 making an end to such sinister threats. That method is to vote without hesitation against the Labour Party, and in favour of the National Government!, whose (policy has brought New Zealand out of unprecedented difficulties, and ha's made the way cl'ear for a return to prosperity.