FOR ENTERPRISE

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21361, 4 March 1941, Page 2

FOR ENTERPRISE

NATIONAL PARTY’S AIMS COMPETITION FAVOURED ADDRESS BY MR HOLLAND (By Telegraph.—Special to Time?) AUCKLAND, Tuesday The Leader of the Opposition, Mr S. G. Holland, devoted a considerable period of an address in the Leys Institute, Ponsonby last night, to stressing the advantages of private enterprise as opposed to State dictation and interference. The National Party believed in the “enterprise system- ’ under which thousands of farms and businesses and tens of thousands of workers were constantly striving to produce more goods and services of better quality for use or consumption. “We believe in the competitive system and we believe in incentive as an urge to efficiency and progress,” he said. “If the enterprise system is clogged up with State dictation and bureaucratic interference, then it will stagnate and deteriorate.” People did not seem to realise the financial state into which New Zealand had drifted and it was much easier “to get into a mess than get out of it,” said Mr Holland in criticising Labour’s financial policy. He compared the position under which members of the New Zealand forces overseas were allowed only Is 6d to be sent them a day, whereas an Australian might have £6 a week forwarded to him. Use of Radio “There is no greater blot on the escutcheon of the Government than its abuse of that great public utility, the radio system.” said Mr Holland amid applause. He asked if people would accept the position if the Government announced that only members of the Labour Party could use the railways or the telegraph service, and said that that would be no more wrong than the use to which the radio had been put. “The sooner we take party politics off the air, the better for politics,” he said. At the conclusion of his address, Mr Holland received a vote of thanks and confidence, the mover being Mr A. McKenzie, and the seconder Mr H. Wooller, chairmen of the Auckland West and Grey Lynn branches of the National Party respectively. Cheers were also given for Mr Holland.