REFORM CANDIDATE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 72, 16 November 1931, Page 6

REFORM CANDIDATE

MR. YAILE AT NGONGOTAHA OTHER PARTIES CRITICISED Mr. E. Earle Vaile, Independent Reform candidate for Rotorua addressed the electors in the hall at Ngongotaha on Saturday evening. There was a fa'r attendance in spite of the wet weather. Mr. Keith was in the chair. In his opening remarks Mr. Yaile followed the lines of his address in Rotorua on Friday evening. He then gave his reasons for supporting the parties. He was one of the original founders of the Reform Party and a member of its first executive; all the meetings of the party were held in his office for 10 years, and when he left Auckland he was vice-presid-ent of the party and Mr. Massey was ; president. He said that he continued to be a supporter of the party for the reason that its policy was more in aceordance with his ideas than i that of any other party, and that in | his opinion, it was the ..only party | which would give sufficient confidence ; at Home and abroad to ensure sound | finance. 1 Collectxon of I ncompetents As regards the United Party, Mr VaTe claimed that it was the greatest collection of incompetents that had ever fluked the chance to misgovern this country. Further, having completely abandoned the policy upon which it attained office, instead of resigning it had appropriated the policy of its opponents and then coolly offered them a partnership in the adm'nistration of it. As regards the present Prime Minister, Mr. Vaile said that to him Mr Forbes seemed to have no mental balanee or fixity of purpose. During the Hauraki election he had made the extraordinary statement 'that he did not care what he had said last year or last week, and this would appear to be true. In March, 1928, Mr. Forbes said that he was strongly >pposed to any further railway conitrnctien and that he favoured a reluct'on in borrowing, yet in September, 1928 he joined Sir Joseph Ward n his great borrowing and railway •onstruction schemes. In March 1929 le had ehanged his policy to suit the socialistic Labour Party and in 1931 again ehanged it in order to obtain Uie help of the Reform Party. In i929 he had "mposed a super tax on 'and; in the follov/ing year he had :aken it off. Mr. Vaile strongly objected to the narty which he supports becoming amalgamated with a ministry .containing people of "so little mental oaiance and capacity." Labour Party's Policy Regarding the Labour Party, Mr. 'daile stated it was quite imposs'ble for him to support its policy. The i.abour Party's policy was Socialism, and that was bound to fail until the main idea in man's minds is the help they can give the'r fellow men, while at present their predominant idea was the help they could get. Mr. Vaile said that if he were re•urned to Parliament he would regard bimself as the representative of all lasses and all people within the constituency. As regards the Country Party, Mr. •'aile iiad the same objection — that A confessedly represented only one Jass, and although the farming class was undoubtedly the most important io tht. comniunity, there were many ; ,ther interests to be considered. He f L.o contended that the Country I'artv was obsessed with the idea of he immediate introduction of free trade, and although a Free Trader himself, he recognised the impossibility of changing the Dominion's po1'cy so radically at a time when 50,000 men were out of work. The meeting closed with a vote of thanks and confidence in the candidate.