FACT AND FANCY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1938, Page 8

FACT AND FANCY.

Mr. Savage was quite right when he said it was a long story lie had told the audienre. It was some story, all rigM. Such a lovinsr panegyric it has seldom been the privilege of a Xew Zealand audience to listen to. All done by the Labour Government. All there marvellous lienefits. services. etc.. and still more to come. too. The wonderful prosperity, etc. As a raeontpur Mr. Savage has no equal. Were his name Michael Angelo. not Michael Savage, he could not have painted a lovelier picture. But turn to the other side of the canvas, to the plain, hard fact*;. The increase in the price of butter and wool has very much more to do with the prosperitv of Xew Zealand than the Labour Administration, whose works Mr. Savage in a wave of enthu-iasm likened Ito the works of our Saviour. "Xobody ever before was like us." etc. What utter rubbish! T suppose Mr. Sed<lon. Sir Joseph Ward. Sir Francis Bell. Mr. Downie Stewart and Mr. -ilassey never did anything for Xew Zealand. Mr. Savage just polished Labours Aladdin's lamp, and here was wonderful, prosperous Xew Zealand—in just two short years. A retnrn to real fact® with a sense of British fair play is well overdue. TT,STER-