ROCKING WASTE'

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 72, 26 March 1932, Page 7

ROCKING WASTE'

COSTLY SESSION.

LABOUR LEADER'S CRITICISM.

GOVERNMENT WITHOUT

POLICY

PARTY DISSENSION INFERRED,

.„ Telegraph. —rress Association.)

WESTPORT, this day.

Mr. H- E- Holland, Leader of the Opposition, who arrived at Westport from Wellington last evening, said that as far 3 the session had gone it involved a locking waste of public money, inasl„,li as the Government called ParliaXi together without having agreed Tn the policy with which it would It the House. It was quite clear that ?w e were serious dmaiona within the nks of Cabinet and the Coalition generally upon policy matters. A r or(! than a month ago, said Mr. tfn'lland Parliament was called together ifh a somewhat bellicose intimation Tl the Prime Minister to the effect tat legislation was to be forced through Sh promptitude and that no delay of Iceedinga would be tolerated. P l the fifth day of the session the i«„rp was introduced, and, with few £», was interpreted by the Press T, an earnest of the Government s mpntions. It transpired, however, apart 1 the bill to destroy compulsory arbitration, which apparently was Slatted by the Employers' federation, (hat the Government had no legislation widv Now, after the House has been n session for a month with only one bill Mortgagors' Relief) passed through the final stages, a somewhat lengthy adjournment was found necessary to enable the Government to prepare the policy which it should have had ready before Parliament was convened It was more than probable, Mr. Holland said, that the I. C. and A Amendment Bill would be passed by the Legislative Council, and if this should be so, and if the disastrous recommendations of the National Expenditure Commission should be adopted, the most dangerous hour in the history of New Zealand would have struck, and all the conditions makin" for industrial upheavals and insurrectionary developments would have been created by the Forbes-Coates C °The avoidance of the creation of such an atmosphere, Mr. Holland added, should be the concern of every sane element in the community, and in this connection the most hopeful sign was the multitude of petitions which had poured in from many hundreds of business men protesting against any further wage reductions.