NATIONAL VIEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22151, 24 September 1943, Page 6

NATIONAL VIEWS

RETAINING FREEDOM MR W. J. BROADFOOT SPEAKS Two hundred persons in the Frankton Town Hall last night heard a forceful address delivered by Mr W. J. Broadfoot, National Party candidate for the Waitomo electorate. With him on the platform was the Hamilton candidate, Mr F. Findlay. The crowd gave Mr Broadfoot an attentive hearing, punctuated with frequent good-humoured interjections. At the conclusion, when he had answered a number of questions, Mr Broadfoot was given a vote of thanks and confidence, similar appreciation being shown toward Mr Findlay. Mr W. J. King was in the chair. In his opening remarks Mr Broadfoot made reference to a speech by the Hon. W. Nash on a recent night, in which the Minister of Finance went into ecstasies over international co-operation by New Zealand with other countries. What a contrast it was, said Mr Broadfoot, with a few years ago when Mr Nash desired to insulate New Zealand. Mr Nash spoke with two voices Mr Broadfoot contended. Two months before the outbreak of war in 1939 he had been reported as stating, during a visit to Great Britain, that New Zealand would not commit itself to military aid for Great Britain. “Now we find.” said Mr Broadfoot, “Mr Nash being lauded as one of the four great statesmen of the day. What rubbish.” The speaker then accused the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. J. G. Barclay, as having an utter cense of irresponsibility. In a recent statement at Whangarei Mr Barclay had claimed that New Zealand received lid more per lb for cheese exported to the United Kingdom than did the United States of America. That was incorrect. According to an official report American cheese sold at lOd per lb more than that of the Dominion. Mentioning the “clammy hands of the Internal Marketing Department,” Mr Broadfoot referred to the rise from Is 10£d to 2s lOd per bushel for barley imported to this country from Australia for the pig industry. That was called efficiency and State control of marketing. ABSENCE OF PERSONALITIES “It was said at the commencement of the campaign that the indications were that this would be a dirty election. I want to say that in the Hamilton electorate I have not heard one word from any of my political opponents to which I could take exception as being personal,” said the National candidate for Hamilton, Mr F. Findlay. Young people, he said, had the power at the poll to say whether they would choose their own trades and professions or be regulated by bureaucracy.