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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 64, 9 December 1919, Page 3

Reform Promised Civil Service Refotan You know that under Ward ism the Ciyi\ Service of the country was degraded by political patronage; that public cervants with long and faithful service to their credit were passed over at promotion time in favour of friends of the Party in power, who had political pull;' that political touts were squeezed into jobs they were utterly unfitted M. You know that the whole service was demoralised by favoritism and injustice. REFORM CHANGED ALL THAT as it premised it would, REFORM KEPT ITS PLEDGE, and the Public Service to-day, through its Association has publicly declared that it never \wants to return to the old (vicious - system. j Reform Promised the Freehold '' I The farmers of New Zealand know that the policy of Reform was the Right to the Freehold for Crown tenants with limitation of area. REFORM KEPT THAT PLEDGE. Reform Promised Sounder Finance The Public Service knows that Reform put the Superannuation Funds on a sounder basis; that it put an end to Sir Joseph Ward's dangerous policy of short-dated loans; that without increasing taxation it stopgthened the country's financial position. REFORM KEPT ITS PLEDGE. Reform Promised Betterment of Old Age Pensions All Old Age Pensioners who to-day draw pensions at 60 instead of 65 owe this to Reform. But Reform, did more than this; it has put the Pensions all round on a more generous footing. ■ ' \ REFORM BETTERS ITS PLEDGES. ' Reform Promised Careful Administration Here again the Reform Record tells its own tale. By placing the Public Service on a better footing and placing national interests before Party, the Reform Government raised the standard of administration of the Country's affairs higher than ever before. REFORM PLEDGES ARE TO BE TRUSTED. Reform Promised an Elective Upper House • i You know that in spite of desperate opposition and obstruction iby the Wardists, Reform passed into law a bill making the Upper House elective. . That Act was held in suspense as a condition on which the Wardists entered into the National Government compact. The Wardists delayed its coming 1 into force, but it is the law to-day. , REFORM PLEDGES ARE FULFILLED. J) The answer is to be found in last Session's Splendid Record j^ I of work . — . Who passed the most drastic Anti-Profiteering Law in antyi country in the World? YQJJ KNOW IT WAg REFORM( Who passed the severest Anti-Aggregation law ever placed on our Statute Books? YOU KNOW IT WAg REFORM ■ Who gave Women the right to sit in Parliament? YOU KNOW IT WAS REFORM. Who Built TWICE AS MANY Workers' Dwellings in THEEE YEARS as the Ward Government built in SIX YEARS? YOU KNOW IT WAS REFORM. These are UNANSWERABLE FACTS which could be multiplied almost indefinitely if space permitted. Sufficient has been shown, however, to make it clear that REFORM KEEPS ITS PLEDGES REFORM DOES NOT PROMISE WHAT IT CANNOT PERFORM Reform Promises to-day SOUND DEVELOPMENT RAPID PROGRESS ■ ASSURED SECURITY Look out the Reform Candidate in your Electorate and give a safe vote.