WELFARE OF N.Z.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1933, Page 7

WELFARE OF N.Z.

RETURNED SOLDIERS’ PLAN

FOR NON-PARTY MOVEMENT

AUCKLAND, December 18

At a meeting of 209 members of the Kdeii-Roskill Ex-Servicemen’s Club, the president, Mr L. A. Tozer, announced that next year machinery would bo put into operation to form a platform for returned soldiers in the affairs of tiie country. The platform would be non-party, and influence would be exerted against political candidates who would not agree to the principles. The platform, it had to be borne, in mind, would not contain any contentions matten-, but it would make humanity the 'first consideration for the national welfare of New Zealand, Mr Tozer said the belief was that finance would in future be the servant lq|f it he people and not- the master. Wealth, he. said, had yet to make a considerable sacrifice for the welfare of t.he coming generation. Every man had a first duty to his 'children to see that the existing conditions were eliminated and that the generation -of the future would be mentally a nd physic-! ally equipped to play a nobl e par'- in 1 the bistqry of the race. The platform would be wide in scope and would -extend throughout the Dominion. The j ft me had arrived when the common wel- | fare of the people demanded justice, I >md the support of every soldier and civilian would be sought.