POLITICAL PARTIES “DRIVEN TOGETHER”

Press, Volume C, Issue 29513, 15 May 1961, Page 8

POLITICAL PARTIES “DRIVEN TOGETHER”

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 14. The National and Labour Parties would be driven ever further together as Social Credit progressed, said the president of the New Zealand Social Credit Political League (Miss M. H. M. King), when opening the annual Dominion conference of the league at Wellington yesterday, according to a supplied statement. The conference was attended by 150 delegates from throughout New Zealand. It will continue until Monday evening. “It is seven years since a

certain professor of economics said at a South Island meeting that there was no difference between the two political parties and that New Zealand could only expect a see-saw between them about every six years and the establishment of a National-Labour merger,” said Miss King. “We are only little David yet with the stones in his sling, and the party system and the present financial system is Goliath," said Miss King. “We have all the strength of age-long institutions and habits against us. But God has chosen the weak things of this world to confuse the

strong. “New Zealand is a little country, a country whose people cherish independence, and the task of fighting to retain our sovereignty is on our shoulders. After all, what are the alternatives? Winston Churchill said they were ‘supreme catastrophe or illimitable reward.’ Party allegiance and the party political spirit had degenerated to the spirit of the barrackers at a football match, said Miss King. Although the spirit of loyalty was a good one. it should be an enlightened one. and that was why the Social Credit League insisted that

it stood for all sections of the community. The rivalries of the two parties were futile, she said, "because they travelled the same road to the same end.”

“We have already made great progress." she said. “More than 106.000 people supported us in the election, and it is our task to work to the goal where all those people are members of the league. “The plans that have been prepared by the Dominion council and the resolutions of this conference will send us further along that road.” she said.