POLITICAL

Taihape Daily Times, 6 February 1919, Page 5

POLITICAL

POLICY OF THE FUTURE. SPEECH BY ME WILFORD. WHANGAKEI, Feb. 4 In replying to the toast of his health, at a banquot given in his honour at Whangarei to-night, the Hon. T. M. Wilford said that the problems of the future were fraught with peril to those who dia not walk circumspectly. Pre-war problems paled into insignificance compared with the ' after-war problems which were already down o n the list for settlement. While he wished, to see the National Government ' continue •after peace was sign:d, he would say that no section of the people of New Zealand would, in the future be allowed to tak> the whole of the community by th? fhrcrt. nvi •*> ';*

dustrial capitalist would do well to remember that there was little in his social record to inspire confidence, and that he had a ver y short time in which to build up a reputation that would float him without disaster into the new era that was surelycoming. People of New Zealand had to decide:— First, the kind of Government they desired,- second, the degree of authority they wished it to possess; third, the broad character of the programme they wished it to pursue; fourth, the type of Administration they preferred to have in office during the infinitely momentous years of wiar settlement and peace transition which are straight before us. Continuing, Mr. Wilford referred to the problems for solution. Successful repatriation, he said, must be the sheet anchor of progressive, statesmanship. In the centres of.population the next war would be a war on hovels that should be homes, on all kinds ofmisefy and their makers. Today, we were holding post morfems but unless those post mortems point/So* the moral and taught a lesson, all efforts would be in vain. (Applause.)