ELECTION THIS YEAR
DEPLORED BY MR BARNARD. ADOPTION OF INDEPENDENT ATTITUDE. (By Telegi’aph—Press Association.) NAPIER, This Day. “I deplore the Prime Minister's motion bringing on an election this year as calculated to distract the attention of New Zealanders generally from the supreme and immediate task of winning the war—it will create bitterness and disunion at a time when complete unity is essential,” said the Speaker of the House of Representatives (the Hon W. E. Barnard) in a statement today. “Also, for the cream of New Zealand's youth overseas, it will postpone their opportunity of taking a hand in shaping the future —an opportunity I am sure the people earnestly desire them to have.” Mr Barnard said he would be a candidate for the Napier seat again, but did not propose to contest the election on party lines. The threat of war still hanging over the country was a tremendous fact which could not and would not be ignored. Mr Barnard continued that in adopting an independent attitude he wished to make it clear that he had not altered his political principles. He was ready as always to co-operate with those who shared with him a common outlook and worked for policies which expressed it. If was a plain duty to promote and sustain the country's war effort to the full and also to declare the principles upon which a better order after the war might be built. “There is growing dissatisfaction with party politics,” Mr Barnard said, “and a demand for a new political outlook and technique of the new order of which we hear so much, to fulfil the hopes of the average man and woman for life in all its phases—personal, social, economic and political—to be lived on a higher plane than we have yet known.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1943, Page 4
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298ELECTION THIS YEAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1943, Page 4
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