FEELING STRAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 78, 3 April 1939, Page 15

FEELING STRAIN.

"EASY MONEY" DOCTRINE. LABOUR GOVERNMENT CRITICISED (From Our Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Sunday. "Tlie passing popularity of 'somc'thing for nothing' and 'easy money' doctrines is feeling the strain to-day, and. as the effects of that strain are becoming increasingly apparent, thousands are nocking to our cause," declared the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. A. Hamilton, on his return to Wellington from a tour of the East Coast, Bay of Plenty, and Waikato districts. "Facts allowed to come out and action* taken since the election have given the people bitter tastes of the legislative dictation and regimentation, and I am sure in the next few months the people of New Zealand will have to pay very dearly for innumerable further examples of extravagant, class-conscious government," continued Mr. Hamilton. "1 have been continuing my 'campaign for fair play in government, and I am convinced that if there was an election to-morrow the enthusiasm for the National party's aims and ideals would sweep the country. "I am determined to carry on the task on behalf of my party in championing the people of every section of the community, who are demanding equity in government. When the National party is returned to power it will legislate for the community as a whole, and not for any one section "of it. „.. ' - "No Government in history has been more consistently expert than the Labour Government ■ to-day in saying one thing and doing another. Quite recently we have had the classic example of Mr. Savage announcing that there would be no obligation on anyone 60

years of age to cease work and accept the £1 10/ a week from social security. Immediately after this, the Government announced that up to 4000 men 00 years of age and over would be put off scheme numlier 13 on to the social security payment of £1 10/."