COUNTRY PARTY’S AIMS
BACK-TO-THE-LAND POLICY ADDRESS BY ORGANISER (Fruin Ojir Own Correspondent.) PUTARURU, To-day. Mr. R. H. Feisst, honorary organiser for the Country Party, did not disdain prophecy when addressing a meeting, composed of farmers, at Putaruru. Referring to the coming elections Mr. Feisst said: “The red herring of the Labour Party will again be drawn across the track at the coming election. But farmers must realise that if a man is conscientiously against Labour then he cannot support the present Government. Its policy is driving people to the towns —14,000 have left the land during the past five years—and it is in the cties that Labour gets its greatest support.” Continuing, he said the Country Party had been approached to combine with other parties to put the Government out, but it would stand alone. Their objective was not to put the Government out, but to improve conditions. The proposed new party offered no alternative, and the constitution of the Country Party prevented it. receiving funds from certain sources. If, as opponent said, they might have the power to put the Government out, then that same power could put the Labour Party out. Such a cry was simply the cry of a dying party. The Country Party was not against the present Government or the Labour Party, but was surely gaining the support of all those who recognised that the greatest need of New Zealand to-day was a policy of “Back to the Land.”
In the above words Mr. Feisst summarised the views of the Country Party in regard to the coming elections to an enthusiastic audience. Mr. Feisst announced that a determined attempt would be made to capture the Waikato seat.
At the conclusion of the address It was unanimously agreed to hold a conference at Putaruru at an early date with a view to selecting a candidate to stand in the interests of the Country Party. Mr. Tomalin stated that the Overdale farmers would give a block vote to the Country Party, no matter who the candidate was.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 340, 28 April 1928, Page 32
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340COUNTRY PARTY’S AIMS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 340, 28 April 1928, Page 32
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