"FOOL'S PARADISE."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 135, 10 June 1938, Page 11

"FOOL'S PARADISE."

SOCIALISM TRENDS.

LABOUR'S POLICY ATTACKED.

VIEWS OF MR. W. P. ENDEAN.

The political situation justified careful j consideration and it behoved the sup- ' porters of the National party to keep their heads and put their right foot for- '• ward to overthrow the state of Socialism that had threatened New Zealand in the ; last three years, said Mr. W. P. Endean, i M.P. for Parnell, when addressing a meeting of 300 supporters of the National party in the Kemuera Library last evening. Mr. L. K. Munro, chairman of the Kemuera branch of tlie National party, presided. ) Mr. Endean said that the rank and file of New Zealanders were fed up with the Socialism to which they had been introduced during Labour's reign. There were some running shoes being made in New Zealand at the present time, and the electors of New Zealand were going •to hand out a lot of them at the election. Highest-Taxed Country. "The Dominion is said to be the paradise of the Pacific," continued Mr. ! Endean. "It is the fool's paradise of the Pacific. What can it be —the , highest-taxed country in the world?" he ' added, pointing out that New Zealanders paid nearly £4 a head more in taxation than the people of Britain and about £"> more than those of New South Wales. ■ Defence expenditure cost the people of | the Dominion only about £1 a head, I compared with £8 in England and £2 in Australia. Describing the proposed national superannuation scheme as "the superpension scheme,'" Mr. Endean said £5.500.000 extra taxation would be required to finance it. The Labour Government had assumed that unemployment had ceased, despite the fact that £5,000,000 was still being spent annually and the problem remained unsolved. The Government also assumed that the national income would never recede from its present level, yet figures proved that in 19.11 the income dropped from £150,000,000 to £90,000,000. Committee Elected. Mr. Endean concluded by appealing to Kemuera supporters for their co-opera-tion and financial assistance. A vote of confidence in Mr. Endean as member for the district was carried by acclamation. The following new "cmmittee was elected: —Dr. R. Mcllroy. Messrs. L. K. Munro, G. Brownlic. D. L. Buehan. C. Fraser. T. O'iphant, T. C. Webb. C. A. Deuxberry. B. P. Stevenson. J. Dawson, R. Hutchinson. FI. E. Barrowclough. F. €ox. E. Elliott. F. E. McKenzie, C. L. Schroff, G. Uron. G. Mahoney, J. B. Paterson. N. Mitchell and S. "A. Burt. Mr. Bernard Morris was elected secretary and treasurer.