TORY TACTICS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 217, 11 September 1923, Page 9

TORY TACTICS.

CRITICISED BY LABOUR. SOME POINTED CRITICISM. Some impressions of the past Parliamentary session were discussed in an interesting address delivered by Mr. M. J. Savage, M.P., last evening in the Leys Institute. Mr. Savage devoted some time lo explaining how matters were rushed through hy the Government, and he criticised both Reform and Liberal members for supporting a reduction in taxa-' tion, his yiew being that there could be j no material reduction if the public services were to be maintained, unless the national debt were further increased. Describing Mr. Massev's Electoral Bill as a sorry mess, Mr. Savage asked whether it was politically honest for the 11-emter to bring forward Hie measure when there would lie scarcely two Reformers who would support it. The Labour party was certainly against it. After -referring to political rats who were keeping the Government alive, the speaker declared that next session Parliament, would not he able to agree verywell, and the chances were that Mr. Massey would see fit to go to the country during 1024. In dealing with the Advances to Workers Act and the Soldiers Pensions Act. Mr. Savage said that these mea- I snres had been administered unsympa- I thetically in the past, and unless"ther«i was a genuine intention to carry out the legislation in a sympathetic manner the latest amendments were mere windowdressing. As for Mr. Massey's assertion that he wouVl stop any boom i" 'rd and buildings, the only way to •! i*iat under the present landlord system >• o'lld be to stop administering the Advi-nces Act. In conclusion. Mr. Savage advised all who wanted advances to put in'their applications, "but." he added, "it is 10 to 1 you will not get any money."