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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 22, No. 6. Wednesday, June 24, 1959

[Introduction]

Stung by the suggestion in "Liberator." the Constitutional Society's journal, that there was nothing between the two principal parties in New Zealand and that politicians were generally despised, Mr Holyoake retorted that "he would leave public life tomorrow" if he thought that was true.

Among other things, he said that the aim of the National Party was "to restore a greater degree of personal liberty than New Zealand has known in the last 25 years."

The secretary of the Constitutional Society hailed this as "particularly good news" but added that "it should be pointed out that the period mentioned included the term of the National Party Government and it must be taken as an admission that true democratic (that is, libertarian and anti-Socialist) principles were not followed during that period."

Eight days later Mr. Holyoake repeated this statement. Is this quite good enough from a Hereward the Wake?