GOOD-HUMOURED.
BUT MANY INTERJECTIONS. MR. H. P. BURTON AT NEWMARKET. There were continual interjections at the crowded meeting addressed by Mr. H. P. Burton, National Government candidate for Auckland East, at' the Municipal Hall, Newmarket, last night, but they were all good-humoured, and some of them were directed at the chairman, Colonel C. R. Spragg, who on one occasion was advised, "Don't you put up your hand again, colonel, or you'll go back to Hitler." Atr. Burton was cheered when he told one intcrjector that he was not going to take any insolence.
On this occasion Mr. Burton paid some attention to the Democrat party, whose policy he criticised as impossible of accomplishment, particularly because of the cost of the health and unemployment schemes. Mr. Hislop had said that for every man put back in employment, work was found indirectly for another, but in the speaker's experience this was not so. He did not know how Mr. Hislop arrived at his total of 40,000 men, as he proposed to find work for 10,000 directly. The speaker said the scheme would cost £12,000,000 a year. Even the Labour supporters at the meeting would agree that the issue was between the Government and Labour. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Burton: It's refreshing to know that there is one thing on which we agree.
In reply to questions, Mr. Burton said that he had an open mind on monetary reform, which experts had not solved. He was in favour of the restoration of the Arbitration Court and would make a lock-out a criminal offence. At the same time it might be significant that there had been fewer strikes without the Court.
A Voice: There's nobody left to go on strike. They've all got the sack.
Mr. Burton said the time was coming when a 40-hour vould have to be considered. But it was significant that none of the Labour candidates had put the. proposition forward. They could ask the Auckland City Council why it had not introduced a 40-hour week. The reason was that it would cost £34,000.
When a motion of thanks was moved, i an amendment was proposed according thanks, but confidence in the present member. Not satis:" jd with the verdict' of the voices, the chairman called for a show of hands. "The amendment's lost," said comeone hopefully. "I'm darned if I know," said the "hairman,' and so the meeting closed. I
GOOD-HUMOURED.
Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 275, 20 November 1935, Page 11
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