REFORM'S EFFETENESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 257, 30 October 1925, Page 8

REFORM'S EFFETENESS.

CRITICISM BY MR. LAMOXT. •"Speaking at Takapuna last night. Mr. T. Lamont, Xational candidate, said that Mr. Harris, at each of his meetings, told his audience of the number of advances to workers given last year. He did not tell them that there were over .3000 on the waiting- list. Xor did he say that the Advances to Worker*" Ait was put on the Statute Book by the Liberal party, in spite; of opposition by his own party.

If the Reform Government had live business men in it they would so arrange the finances of the country that they would have money available for building houses, as that was the greatest need at present. Indeed, it was more necessary than the railway deviation, which would cost a Very great sum to complete. Why did tl>?y not leave the income tax as it was prior to 1923, and use the £221.000 given to the big farmers in the way of exemption towards advances to workers? In 1011 the Reform party promised us electoral reform: they repealed the second ballot, and gave nothing in its place. If we had the second ballot on proportional representation. Mr. Harris would not have been the member for Waiteniata last election. He did not represent the majority of the electors, and yet he has made no effort to promote legislation to secure democratic Government.